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Leave the planning to the experts and the background research to a trained guide with a tour—whether the classic motorcoach trip, a more active trip by horse, bike, or foot, or an educational tour or study trip.

In this section you'll find information on all the ways to tour see Europe with someone else doing the planning and taking care of all the details. That means resources for finding and booking tours in all of the following categories:

Escorted and guided tours - Italy by bus, the classic motorcoach tour in a group and with a guide. My or many not include airfare as well. Dullest way to travel, in my opinion, and anyone can easily do Italy on their own using the resources on this site—or find a more intersting specialty tour using the resources below. But if a guided tour is the way you prefer to take your vacations, who am I to judge? I'd rather help you find the best darn bus tour out there.
Package tours - This is not a guided tour. There is no bus. There is no guide. You do your own daily sightseeing on your own, and are merely buying the big ticket items—airfare and hotel, or air and car, or all three—as a set and at a discount. Most common: air-hotel vacations and air-car packages.
Untours - Not a category, actually, just a single, well-regarded company offering something between a package and a full tour. A single, fairly competitive price buys you airfare to Italy, local transportation (car or railpass, depending on the package), and lodging (hotels, apartments, or rental villas, again depending), plus there is a local resource in Italy who will help you settle in and who is always on call to answer questions and give advice. This person is not, however, a guide. It's still independent travel—just with the major logistics taken care of and all the expensive stuff bought as a set and at a slight discount.
Specialty tours - Includes everything from educational trips (cooking schools, language lessons, study programs, and tours with a particualrly brainy bent) to active vacations (bike tours, walking/hiking tours, horseback vacations, and adventure trips).
Niche group tours - This is the section with all sorts of information, resources, advice, tour companies, and guidebooks for, well, let's call them niche groups—travelers with special interests or needs, whether it be family travel, religious tours, senior and mature travelers, travel for people with disabilites, women travelers, single travelers, gay and lesbian travelers, and students.
Run your own tour - There are resources out there both for finding private guides in Italy's major destinations, and for people who need to book plane tickets and other travel products for large groups (10 people or more)—reunions, big family/friend vacations, school classes or scout troops, corporate retreats.

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Classic escorted group tours
Specialty tours
Active vacations
Educational travel
Package tours
- Air-hotel vacations
- Air-car packages
- Untours (air, hotel/villa, car/train, local support)
Niche groups
Design your own group tour
- Private guides

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Leave the planning to the experts and the background research to a trained guide with a tour—whether the classic motorcoach trip, a more active trip by horse, bike, or foot, or an educational tour or study trip.

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