Thank you to everyone that attended last Friday’s coffee break on November 7th, featuring Andiamo. Theresa Doyle gave an informative presentation and I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. We received many great questions and you can find the answers to them below. If you have any additional questions please leave a comment below or e-mail me at smiller@mailpound.com. You can also send your questions and requests to Theresa directly at info@goandiamo.com.
Q. Can I get a copy of what you went over?
A. Yes you can send your requests to info@goandiamo.com or call us or visit us on the web for brochures or information. You can also view the whole presentation on MailPound by clicking here.
Q. What is the cost of the FAM in March?
A. Please send your request to info@goandiamo.com and I will send you the package, itinerary and costs.
Q. Does Andiamo have any contracted Trans Atlantic Air Contracts?
A. Andiamo is a land tour operator. We feel the land, with its 20 regions, keeps us busy enough to be experts. Air is more of a commodity item. We can do air when it is a group and work closely with Eurofly. But I would answer no we do not have any contracted contracts.
Q. Do you have any upcoming FAMS to Tuscany Culinary?
A. Yes we are currently working on a FAM that is going to take us from Rome to the Tuscan area. The details will be released on MailPound.
Q. Italy has a very well established agritourism- do you handle any of that? How would we incorporate that type of request?
A. Yes we do handle agritourism in Tuscany specifically. We also do villas agritourism- we basically do anything you want in Italy that is land related. We are currently working on another FAM trip which will be at an agritourism. I am not sure of the exact dates right now but we are thinking the end of March.
Q. It looks from the website that the public can book through Andiamo directly or do you sell only through travel agents?
A. Andiamo is a tour operator that works with the travel agent, we do not work with the consumer. In fact if we have a client that contacts us directly the first question we ask them is how did they hear about Andiamo. Yesterday we received a call from a client and when asked how they heard about us, they said through a travel agency. We immediately called the travel agent and told them we had been in contact with their client. We are very careful and feel very strongly that the travel agent is our friend and want that relationship to last a long time. We prefer to work with the travel agent and have the travel agent work with the client.
Q. Do you have any Judaic heritage tours available?
A. Yes we do. I have it and developed it and can send it to you if you e-mail me at info@goandiamo.com.
Q. Do you go anywhere in Calabria?
A. Yes we have properties and contracts in Calabria. We also have programs I can share with you in Calabria. We focus on all 20 regions in Italy and basically anything you want right now we are doing- we do things all over. We have travel agents who tell us they have called other service tour operators and we are the only ones that could get them to that area. Anything you want on the heritage tours just let us know by e-mailing your requests to info@goandimo.com, or please give me a call and I or one of my fellow Andiamo team members would be happy to help you.