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Luxury Trips for Less
Smart Money, 07/01/08
Chicago-based travel agency Select Italy, which used to offer tours like its daylong Chocolate, Wine and Cheese of Piemonte ($537) exclusively on a private basis, now allows travelers to join groups of up to eight, reducing prices by about 25 percent.
Click here to read the whole article.
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La Dolce Vita: Honeymooning in Italy
Recommend Magazine, 06/01/08
Whether it's sharing a wish for life-long wedded bliss at Rome's Trevi Fountain; gliding along a Venice canal under a starry night; or sharing a bottle of Tuscan wine in an intimate, out-of-the-way bistro in Florence, it's hard to imagine a country more perfect for the ultimate romantic honeymoon experience
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Roman Forum: Free No More
Washington Post, 03/08/08
If you happen to be in Rome today, hurry out of bed to take advantage of the last free day to visit the most famous world heritage sites in the Eternal City. Tickets can be purchased at the Palatine box office on Via di S. Gregorio 30. If arriving in
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Travel Differently: Rent a Villa
thestreet.com, 03/07/08
Renting a farmhouse in Tuscany -- or Puglia, or Sicily -- would arguably be on top of most people's dream vacation wish-list.
Chicago-based Select Italy has a portfolio of private properties all over Italy, and can also arrange cooking classes, source hard-to-get opera tickets or arrange a luxury car rental.
Villa
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Fast Company
Caviar Affair, 10/01/07
Drive a Ferrari around Tuscany and down to Rome with Select Italy and Red Travel Tours which offer a self-guided tour combining absolute luxury with Gran Turismo. Each journey is customed designed to blend art, architecture, gastronomy, and spectacular scenery, as well as. if you wish, a trip
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T+L's 2007 A-List: Our 125 Travel Super Agents
Travel & Leisure, 09/01/07
The agents listed on the following pages know the world - and how to get those elusive upgrades, hard-to-score reservations, and seats on sold-out flights. We've interviewed hundreds of agents to pick the ones who always deliver. You'll find our 125 travel super-agents listed by area of specialization,
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Colosseum Tickets Without the Line
Chicago Tribune, 08/06/07
[In the Chicago Tribune's Travel Web Log, Taking Off, selectitaly.com is mentioned as a convenient way to get Colosseum tickets in advance without the long lines.]
Posted by Toni Salama
With 4 million people a year competing for admission to the Colosseum and Palatine Hill, you can imagine the lines.
For quite
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The God Days (of Summer): Via Ferrari
Outside's GO, 06/08/07
[This article about our Italia in Ferrari tours gives a great introduction to these luxury packages.]
By Christian DeBenedetti
June 8-14 Yearning for a leisurely week in the Italian countryside? Add A Room With a View to your Netflix queue. But if a full-throttle romp in a gleaming
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Chat Plus Affordable Venice Hotels
Washington Post, 05/27/07
[In the Washington Post's web log, Chat Plus, Select Italy provides information on affordable hotels in Venice.]
by Andrea Sachs
During our online chat (most Mondays at 2 p.m.), you ask and we answer your
travel questions -- mostly. Here's one we couldn't answer last week.
Do you have any cheap hotel suggestions
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Road Warrior (When in Rome...)
Fortune, 05/14/07
[In this article, appearing in the BUSINESS LIFE section, Roadwarrior Grant Thatcher, recommends selectitaly.com as one of only two places that can organize a private tour of the Sistine Chapel.]
by Clay Chandler
ROADWARRIOR
Grant Thatcher, 44, Editor, Luxe City Guides
FOR YEARS, Grant Thatcher rattled around Asia gathering wisdom about
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Five Foolproof Vacations
Real Simple - Travel, 04/03/07
Destination: Tuscany
By: Candy Gianetti
WHY IT'S A CROWD-PLEASER
"When you say 'Tuscany', people have images of cypress trees or Michelangelo's David in their heads, and when they go there, they are not disappointed," says Andrea Sertoli, president of Select Italy, in Wilmette, Illinois. Besides being picturesque, this New Jersey-size region has
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Rome Holds First Film Festival; City Gets Booked
Travel Agent Magazine, 10/30/06
[Select Italy President, Andrea Sertoli, provides an insider's insights on booking travel to Rome's Film Festival.]
By: Mike Jaccarino
Agents should plan ahead for next year
As Travel Agent goes to press, Italian officials are concluding the first Rome Film Festival. October 13 to 21, to apparently great fanfare in both the
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Italy by Ferrari
International Travel News, 10/01/06
Explore Italy in a Ferrari on a customized tour of from two days to six weeks with Select Italy. Whether it’s a caravan of Ferraris or a private tour, there’s a lead car and a support van.
A sample 6-night package for two that encompasses Rome and Florence, including a
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T&L's 2006 A-List: The 125 Travel Super-Agents
Travel & Leisure, 09/15/06
A seat on a sold-out flight. A beachfront room at a hot new resort. That elusive cabin upgrade (at no extra charge). These are a few of the things that a great travel agent can secure for a client. In this easy-to-use pullout guide, you'll find T&L's 2006 A-List: 125
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Fall File: Travel & Events - Race Car Tours
Four Seasons Magazine, 09/01/06
- Christina Valhouli
What better way to experience Italy than behind the wheel of one of its most famous exports? Select Italy, a U.S.-based company, can organize a trip that will have you driving the winding roads of Tuscany or taking a spin down the famous Mille Miglia, Italy's Thousand
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Person to Person
Cruise & Vacation Agent, 09/01/06
by James Ruggia
Relationships are key when planning "complex" travel and offering "high-risk" products and services.
According to research in travel trends by Yesawich, Pepperdine, Brown & Russell earlier this year, travel agents will continue to become sellers of “complex” and “high-risk” travel products and services. In creative terms, this
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Private Moments
Travel News Today, 08/08/06
Sometimes, traveling for pleasure can be more stressful than just staying at home, especially when you’re trying to cram as much as possible into your limited vacation time. Whether you’re dashing from one monument to the next, scheduling activities on the hour, or trying to bond with your tour group
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FYI TRAVEL: Get a behind-the-scenes look at an Italian treasure
Copley News Service, 07/25/06
By Tom Roebuck
Select Italy, a Chicago-based travel agency that specializes exclusively in Italy, is offering guided visits to Florence's Percorso dei Principi, better known as the Vasari Corridor. This site is officially closed to the general public - operators at the Uffizi Gallery box office do not grant reservation
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MY TECH: Travel agency keeps tight focus on Italy, customized itineraries
Chicago Tribune, 07/10/06
Alex L. Goldfayn
Andrea Sertoli, 48; President, Select Italy, Wilmette
Just listening to Andrea Sertoli's melodic accent makes you feel like you're in Italy.
"Italy is a showcase," he nearly sang. "The art, the countryside, the culture, the food. There is hardly another country that contains in a relatively small space so
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Select Italy Presents Ferrari Tours
Travel World News, 06/01/06
Travel agency and tour operator Select Italy is now offering luxury Ferrari tours of Italy. Select Italy is the official North American partner of Turin-based Red Travel, Italy's premiere vendor of deluxe sports-car travel.
These Ferrari tours provide unique experiences. Custom-tailored for individuals, a small
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Selective Touring
Calgary Sun, 04/20/06
By CHRIS NELSON
Baby boomers have always been an independent bunch.
Perhaps it was those rebellious '60s that did it, but whatever the reason, there's an increasing number of well-heeled boomers who want to do things their way when travelling.
None of the "one size fits all" tours where you're packed onto
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Select Italy Tours–The Best Way to See Venice
Our Weekly, 09/01/05
By Michael Hepworth
OW Contributor
Italy will always be a top destination for travelers because it remains an unmatched destination with the warmth of the people, its heritage, and its sheer physical beauty. Top or near top of that list has to be Venice, and a tour company in Chicago
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T+L's 2005 A-List: 125 travel super-agents
Travel & Leisure, 08/21/05
In this age of information overload, when destinations, flights, and hotels are a click away, turning to a specialist to help plan your trip is essential. On the following pages, you'll find T+L's 2005 A-List: 125 travel super-agents, arranged by area of specialization, and their ultimate dream trips. Nearly
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Best sites on the Web recognized with awards from the academy
Chicago Tribune, 05/28/05
Best sites on the Web recognized with awards from the academy
ALEX L. GOLDFAYN:
Published May 28, 2005
When most Americans had barely heard of the Internet, Tiffany Shlain predicted that communicating with computers one day would connect countries, cultures and communities.
It was 1987, and Shlain was a high school student
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Breathing More Easily Without the Throngs
The New York Times, 12/19/04
For anyone who has been to Venice in summer - when it becomes an Italian theme park, with thousands of tourists jostling for space on the Piazza San Marco, trying to snap a souvenir photo of the Campanile and then lining up for a coffee at Caffè Florian, which opened
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Travel Diary
Bell'Italia American Edition, 10/01/04
It’s been said if something seems too good to be true, it probably is. So I was naturally skeptical after hearing about a tour that combined my two insatiable passions – Italy and Chocolate. Having always written-off reports of a fabled Chocolate Valley that peeks Brigadoon-like through
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Andrea Sertoli Dream Trip
Travel & Leisure, 09/20/04
They’re the ultimate travel experts…For T&L’s annual A-List, we’ve once again identified the country’s top travel agents, and on the following pages listed them according to their area of expertise…So, whether you’re looking for someone to help you plan an upcoming trip, or just ideas for where to go
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Florentine Eye For a Tall Guy
The Wall Street Journal, 05/21/04
On Monday, Italian restorers will unveil a makeover of Michelangelo's 17.5 foot-tall statue of David, just in time for its 500th birthday. The cleaning may create not only a new reason to come to Florence, but also some new headaches... For summer visitors, the problem will be the
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The A-List 125 Travel Super-Agents
Travel & Leisure, 09/15/03
They’re the ultimate travel experts…For T&L’s annual A-List, we’ve once again identified the country’s top travel agents, and on the following pages listed them according to their area of expertise…So, whether you’re looking for someone to help you plan an upcoming trip, or just ideas for where to go next,
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Diving Ponza, Italy
Men's Journal, 08/15/03
Both Nero and Mussolini were exiled to this 7,000-acre island located offshore midway between Rome and Naples. And even today, it’s something of a netherland. That’s a boon to local scuba divers, who have the clear Mediterranean waters nearly all to themselves. The ocean floor is littered
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The A-List: 70 Travel Super-Agents
Travel & Leisure, 09/15/02
ANDREA SERTOLI - ITALY
Years as agent: 10
Years as specialist: 10
Top tip: "Ponza, an island that's a jealously guarded weekend escape for Romans. The next island over is a nature preserve. The waters are crystal-blue and you can find obsidian in the sea."
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Booking online
The Seattle Times, 05/12/02
Booking online has taken a divine turn: it's now possible to sign up for an audience with the Pope via the Web. Select Italy, a tour operator based in Wilmette, Illinois, has begun offering bookings for the regular papal audiences at the Vatican trough its website at www.selectitaly.com
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Beyond the Basics
Travel Agent Magazine, 05/08/02
So your clients are in love with Italy. They can't get enough of it. But once they have been to the marquee cities of Rome, Venice and Florence (and maybe have even rented a villa in Tuscany), what can you do to help enrich their return visits?...
"We've put together the
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The Italy Thing...
Joe Sent Me, 03/15/02
Maybe it's just because my name is Brancatelli, but I get more questions about holiday travel to Italy than any other place on the planet. And the two questions that come up most frequently are: "How do I rent a villa in Tuscany?" and "How do I book a museum
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On the Town; Quintessential Experiences: Rome
Town & Country, 01/15/02
If you have time to explore only one of Rome's enthralling layers of history, start at the Palatine Hill, the city's fabled birthplace. This is where Roman emperors chose to live, in ever more grandiose palaces, during the height of the empire. It was the inspiration for centuries of landscape
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Custom Tours in Italy
The New York Times, 01/06/02
Qusetion: My husband and I would like to travel to Italy for the first time in April, visiting Rome, Venice, Florence and/or Milan. We feel tours are restrictive and too scheduled, but we do not want to rent a car. We would like leisure time and a guide of some
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Shop Online & Offline For Deals ú Surf The Web
USA Today, 07/14/00
Surf the Web to get great rates and avoid standing in line -- from airline, train and hotel bookings to theater tickets and museum passes. Angela Pace of Columbus, Ohio, avoided standing in line at the popular Uffizi Gallery in Florence by buying tickets ahead of time via www.selectitaly.com
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Bypassing Lines in Italy
The New York Times, 07/18/99
Question: I will be visiting Rome and Florence and would like some advice on how to avoid long museum lines.-Herbert P. Kelley, Norfolk, VA
Answer: Waiting as long as three hours under the blistering sun (or pouring rain for that matter) can be a maddening part of visiting Italian museums,
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Your Own Private Italy
Town & Country, 03/15/99
'Other budgets notwithstanding, the American traveler always has a time budget and wants to make the most of a few days of vacation,' says Andrea Sertoli, who owns Select Italy, Illinois-based travel service that helps travelers minimize their time stuck on line or crushed in crowds so they can maximize
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The Facts: Palladian Villas
Travel & Leisure, 12/15/98
Vicenza is the heart of Palladio country, and a convenient base from which to tour the Veneto. The region is at its most spectacular in spring or fall. If you take the autostrada from Venice and drive like an Italian, you'll reach Vicenza in an hour. Should you prefer to
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Taking a Quiet, Private Vacation in Italy
Leisure Travel News, 11/16/98
Wilmette, IL- A visit to the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City, anticipated by many travelers as a once-in-a-lifetime experience, can be diminished by noisy crowds jostling for a better view of the restored Michelangelo ceiling frescoes, or individuals blithely ignoring pleas from museum guards to avoid taking flash photos. Andrea
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News, Tips & Bargains; Late Hours, Advance Passes for Italy Sites
The Los Angeles Times, 06/28/98
Rome- Catering to cultural night owls, Italy will offer evening and late-night hours at more than 50 museums, palaces and archaeological sites this summer. The sites include the Roman Forum and Castel Sant'Angelo Museum in Rome; Villa Adriana and Villa d'Este on the outskirts of the capital; the archaeological site
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New Operator Focuses on the Upscale and the Out-of-the-Way
Travel Weekly, 04/09/98
Travel agents looking to design upscale, customized itineraries in Italy have a new player in the field: Select Italy, based here. The company, which also has an office in Rome, targets the high-end market, offering an extensive roster of properties. The company seeks to avoid large groups, motorcoaches and impersonal
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