These are UK-based tour operators and specialist travel agencies featuring holidays, tours and travel in Italy.
See also Travel companies in Italy and Cooking holidays |
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| Abercrombie & Kent |
020 7730 9600 |
Upmarket tailormade holidays |
| AmorItalia |
08701 60 75 04 |
A selection of villas apartments and hotels in Tuscany, Umbria and Sardinia. |
| ATG Oxford |
01865 315 678 |
The Alternative Travel Group have been working their home town, Oxford, into their brand name recently and now with the re-launch of their website, they've become simply 'ATG Oxford'. What they do has remained the same as when they started back in 1979: walking tours, cycling tours and special interest tours, for independent travellers or escorted groups. Italy is the cornerstone of their programme with a huge range of cycle tours and guided & independent walks throughout the country with many of them focused on historical or cultural themes. |
| Back-Roads Touring Co |
020 8566 5312 |
Fully-escorted, small group, scheduled and customised tours by mini-coach. |
| BellaSardinia.com |
n/a |
BellaSardinia offer small group special interest holidays on Sardinia, including painting holidays, cooking holidays, and culture tours. |
| Bellini Travel |
020 7437 8553 |
A specialist Italy travel portal/agency
selling components & advice. They also have an 'arts & heritage' brand, Fine Art Travel. |
| Boxwood Tours |
01292 263331 |
Horticultural holidays visiting private & historic gardens in Italy. |
| Bridgewater Travel |
0161 787 8587 |
Villas, farmhouses, castles, hotels & apartments mainly in Tuscany |
| Carefree Italy |
01293 552277 |
Independent brand set up by the Carefree Travel group in 1990 to offer holidays in villas, apartments, hotels and castles (with pools) across Italy. They have a portfolio of around 450 rental properties unique to themselves, many in stunning locations. |
| Citalia |
020 8686 5533 |
Citalia have been around a bit - 78 years actually (2005)- and Italy is their patch! They have a huge programme of hotels, s/c villas and tours throughout Italy. |
| Classic Collection |
01903 823088 |
Glamorous 5/4-star hotels in Sorrento & the Amalfi Coast. |
| Cognoscenti World |
08717 500070 |
Luxury tailor-made holidays and short breaks based on a selection of beautiful hotels. Also cookery courses, weddings, golf holidays, etc. |
| Colletts Mountain Holidays |
01763 289660 |
Summertime (and winter) mountain activities in the Italian Dolomites. |
| Connections Worldwide |
01494 473 173 |
Part of Titan HiTours group. Began operating their first programme of tours to Italy in Jan 2003 featuring hotels, villas, apartments, escorted tours, cruises and coach tours. |
| Cottages to Castles |
01622 775217 |
Cottages to castles in Veneto, Tuscany, Umbria, Lazio, Sicily
and the Neapolitan Riviera |
| Creativity Travel |
01227 276390 |
Cookery holidays, gourmet breaks, and other special interest holidays in Italy. |
| Crystal Holidays |
0870 888 0024 |
Self-catering apartments & villas and elegant hotels in Tuscany & Umbria, Sardinia, Sicily, Lake Como, Lake Garda, and in & around cities such as Naples, Venice, Rome, Florence and Verona. |
| Crusader Travel |
020 8744 0474 |
Villas, apartments and country hotels in Umbria & Sicily. They also have properties on Sicily's neighbouring islands (Ustica & Pantelleria) and offer scuba diving opportunities. (Crusader are also dive specialist operators in the Red Sea). |
| CV Travel |
020 7581 0851 |
Mainly villas, mainly Umbria &
Tuscany |
| Design Holidays |
0870 727 3755 |
Holidays in resort hotels and villas on Sardinia. |
| Discovery Travel |
01785 214239 |
A range of s/c properties from farmhouses to cottages in Puglia, Abruzzo, Le Marche, Umbria and Tuscany. Also Italian language and culture courses in the historic town of Spello. |
| Essential Italy |
01223 460100 |
A small villa agency run by a brother & sister team offering hand-picked villas, apartments and hotels in Tuscany, Umbria, Sardinia, Puglia, Sicily and the Amalfi regions of Italy, with an emphasis on customer service before, during and after a holiday. |
| Exclusive Italy |
01892 619650 |
Luxury hotels & resorts throughout Italy |
| Exsus Travel |
020 7292 5050 |
Luxury tailormade holidays in top hotels in Sicily, Venice, Florence and the Amalfi Coast. |
| Flavours |
01506 854621 |
Italian cookery holidays |
| Gridlink Tuscany Rentals |
020 7636 3404 |
A co-operative of Tuscany landowners renting their properties direct. |
| Hammond Villas |
0845 177 23 23 |
A small specialist villa company, offering a good selection of villas with pools in mostly Tuscany and Umbria. All villas and their owners are known personally to the company. |
| Headwater Holidays |
01606 720099 |
Cycling, walking and cookery holidays in Tuscany & Umbria. |
| Hello Italy |
01483 284011 |
Cottages, castles, studios in country settings. |
| Holiday Options |
01444 2444 11 |
Hotels, villas & apartments on Sicily, Sardinia and the Aeolian islands |
| Holiday Place, The |
020 7644 1770 |
Low-cost exotic holidays specialist offering hotel/resort holidays on the northern lakes (Maggiore, Como & Garda), Sorrento, and on Sicily. |
| Home in Italy |
020 7404 4911 |
A selection of exlusive elegant private villas, cottages, farmhouses, apartments and other properties in regions all over Italy. Also cooking holidays and weddings. |
| Ilios Travel |
08700 600 607 |
Villas and farmhouses with private pools in rural locations in Umbria, Tuscany, Le Marche, Lazio and Abruzzo. |
| Individual Italy |
08700 772772 |
One of the Individual Travellers Company brands and formerly called 'Vacanze in Italia'. A portfolio of around 350 self-catering city apartments, country villas, cottages and farmhouses throughout Italy & Sicily, but with the majority in Tuscany & Umbria. Sizes range from studios for 2 to villas for 19 people. |
| Inghams Travel |
020 8780 4466 |
Villa holidays, city breaks, hotels in key parts of Italy |
| Interhome |
020 8891 1294 |
Villas, Castles & apartments to rent throughout Italy |
| International Chapters |
020 7722 0722 |
Seriously luxurious villas, palaces, etc |
| Invitation to Tuscany |
0121 429 5016 |
Property rental in Tuscany |
| IST Italian Breaks |
020 8660 0082 |
Apartments and some villas all over Italy |
| Italia nel Mondo |
020 7828 9171 |
Specialists for Sicily, Ustica and the Aeolian Islands (north of Sicily around Stromboli). |
| Italian Connection, The |
020 7520 0470 |
Tailor-made holiday specialists. |
| Italian Cookery Weeks |
020 8748 2661 |
Now in its eleventh year, ICW runs holiday courses in Italian-style cooking, under chef Suzanna Gelmetti, in Umbria and on the Amalfi Coast. |
| Italian Ethos |
020 8858 3419 |
Hand-picked farmhouses, self-catering apartments and small hotels in the Le Marche region of Italy. |
| Italian Expressions |
020 7435 2525 |
Short breaks and longer holidays in a range of grand hotels, boutique hotels, castles & country-house hotels throughout Italy. |
| Italian House, The |
01373 814234 |
Villas, cottages, farmhouses & apartments in Tuscany & Umbria |
| Italian Life |
0113 281 8811 |
Villas in Veneto, Tuscany, Umbria & Lazio |
| Italian Secrets |
01494 676136 |
Cookery weeks run by Anna Venturi at her villa on the north coast of Sicily. |
| Italiatour |
020 7722 0722 |
aka "Alitalia Holidays". Elegant hotels and resorts throughout Italy for short breaks & longer |
| Italy Hotels Direct |
0141 561 3639 |
Discount hotel booking in Milan Florence & Rome |
| ITC Classics |
01244 355 340 |
ITC specialise in luxury holidays in luxury hotels & resorts. In Italy that means classic hotels in a wide range of locations including Rome, Capri, Florence, the Italian Lakes, Venice, Milan, the Almalfi Coast, Sardinia, Tuscany and Portofino. |
| Just Imagine |
0114 247 3400 |
U.S. holiday homes rental agency with a UK office. They have properties in Tuscany, Sicily, Campania, Apulia, Roma-Lazio, Umbria, Marches, Liguria, & Veneto. |
| Just Sardinia |
01202 484858 |
 Independent company launched in 2000, specialising in tailor-made and package holidays to Sardinia, based on a selection of hotels, villas, apartments and farm accommodation. They claim in-depth local knowledge of Sardinia, not least because the directors have lived and worked there since 1982. |
| Kudu Travel |
01722 716167 |
Kudu operate a number of guided 'cultural' tours to Italy focusing on the arts, food, wine and chocolate!. |
| La Bella Toscana |
01986 892333 |
Specialise in villas, farmhouses & apartments in medieval San Grimignano and Colle de Val d'Elsa bewteen Florence & Sienna. |
| La Dolce Vita |
020 8690 9701 |
Large apartments in glamourous villas & farmhouses in Tuscany & Umbria. |
| Lai Travel Holidays |
020 7837 1477 |
Tailormade holidays to all parts of Italy |
| Landmark Trust |
01628 825925 |
As in the UK, a number of protected historic properties for rent |
| LB Freedom Tours |
01442 263377 |
Cycling and walking holidays in the Italian Alps, in Tuscany, Umbria and Sardinia with luggage transported on to the next inn/hotel each day. |
| Living Italy |
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Year round programme of cultural tours based in Umbria |
| Long
Travel |
01694 722193 |
Small specialist operator, set up by Annie Long in 1987, offering tailor-made holidays in personally selected (and rather special) hotels, villas, and farms in southern Italy, Sicily and Sardinia. |
| Mediterranean Experience, The |
020 7313 6644 |
Resort and beach holidays in luxury grand hotels, stylish independent and boutique hotels. |
| Mediterraneo Case |
020 8133 1261 |
Self-catering cottages, farmhouses, apartments, and villas in Apuglia, Sardinia, Calabria & Campania. |
| Momentum Travel |
020 7371 9111 |
Momentum are best-known as ski tour operators but they also specialise in tailor-made summer holidays & breaks in Italy, offering everything from cultural tours, through villa holidays and spa breaks, to weddings & honeymoons. |
| Page & Moy |
0870 010 6400 |
Escorted tours, city breaks and cruising |
| Painting in Italy |
0800 458 9112 |
Relaxed painting holidays with expert guidance in Tuscany and Umbria. Sister brand to Cooking in Umbria. |
| Quality Villas |
01442 870 055 |
Quality villas is a family-run business set up by Margaret Rees in 1986, specialising in luxury villas & farmhouses with private pools, in Tuscany, Umbria & Lazio. |
| Real Holidays |
020 7359 3938 |
Real have a "Italian Portfolio" with its own dedicated brochure featuring holidays in a range of properties from 4-star hotels to Agriturismo apartments with pools in Umbria, Marche, Calabria, Campania, Puglia and Sicily. |
| Sardatur Holidays |
020 7242 2455 |
Sardinia specialist with some lovely hotels (4/5-star) and apartments all over the island. |
| Scotia Travel |
0141 305 5000 |
Small agency with trips to Rome, Verona & the Lakes flying from Edinburgh or Glasgow. |
| Simply Travel |
020 8995 8277 |
Tuscany & Umbria. Mainly beautiful s/c villas, but some hotels too |
| Simpson Travel |
020 8392 5854 |
Graham Simpson, the man who created Simply Travel (see above), is back. He created Simply Travel in the seventies and built it into a very successful independent specialist tour operator. Three years ago he sold it to one of the big 'multiples' (TUI/Thomsons) and took a sabbatical. Now he's starting up again. Simpson Travel, was launched in October 2002 and offers a select range of elegant villas and small hotels in Tuscany & Umbria. |
| Solmar Villas |
0870 381 3000 |
Private villas & country houses in Tuscany, Umbria & Lazio |
| Summer's Leases |
01628 675377 |
Farmhouses in central Italy |
| Sunvil |
020 8758 4747 |
Fly-drive and tailor-made itineraries throughout Italy, Sicily, Lipari and San Marino. Their 2006 brochure is their first dedicated Italy brochure (until now, Italy and Portugal have appeared together in one brochure). New additions to the programme include elegant hotels and villas in Puglia, Turin, Venice, Lake Garda, Florence, San Gimignano, Positano, Sorrento and Sicily (Taormina, Syracuse and Cefalu). |
| Tastes of Italy |
020 8788 2337 |
Gourmet breaks in Italy combining luxurious food with Italian culture, plus cookery and wine courses. |
| Time Away |
020 8343 2590 |
Self-catering properties in the most popular regions of the Italian mainland, and Sardinia & Sicily.
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| thinkSicily |
020 7377 8518 |
Specialist operator to Sicily offering spectacular escorted walks, beautiful villas & apartments and sumptuous hotels on Sicily itself and the Aeolian islands. |
| To-Tuscany |
020 7193 7782 |
Independent villa rental specialist to Tuscany |
| Traditional Tuscany |
0700 488 7226 |
Farmhouses, villas & apartments in Tuscany, Umbria and the Marches. |
| Trafalgar Tours |
020 7574 7444 |
A number of classic escorted coach tours around Italy. |
| Travel à la Carte |
01635 863030 |
Villas & farmhouses in Tuscany |
| Transun Travel |
0870 4444 747 |
Beach holidays, with a strong programme of excusions to nearby sites & cities, on the Neopolitan & Venetian coasts and in Sardinia, flying from UK regional airports. |
| Travel Editions |
020 7251 0045 |
Small company operating a programme of pre-scheduled cultural short breaks for escorted groups. There regular tours to the Tuscany, the Aeolian Islands & Sicily, and to see classical performances & events in Venice (Carnival), Verona, Milan, etc. |
| Travelsphere |
01858 410 818 |
Direct sell operator with air, coach and rail holidays to the lakes and a range of popular cities/destinations in Italy. |
| Tuscan Holidays |
015394 31120 |
Holiday homes on vinyards in Tuscany |
| Tuscany Holiday Link |
01296 488 073 |
Italian farmhouses, elegant villas, luxury apartments and flats to rent based in and around Florence, Siena, Pisa, Lucca, San Gimignano, Iago, Certaldo Alto, Casole d'Elsa, Chianti Hills, Volterra and Montelopio. A small agency run by Liliana Calendino Parise.
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| Tuscany Now |
020 7272 5469 |
Villas throughout Italy |
| Umbria Rentals |
07776 250 381 |
A small number of apartments and villas in/around the Umbrian village of Panicale. |
| Vacansoleil |
08700 778779 |
European camping & mobile home holidays. The 2004 programme features 13 new sites in Italy, bringing the total in Italy to 54. |
| View Tuscany |
0870 243 0314 |
Self-catering apartments & and a luxury hotel at Borgo di Colleoli, a 15th Century working manor and estate located midway between Pisa & Florence. |
| Venetian Apartments |
020 8878 0982 |
Exclusive upmarket private properties in Venice, Florence, Rome
& Verona |
| Veronica Tomasso Cotgrove |
020 7267 2423 |
Veronica Tomasso Cotgrove rents handpicked period properties in Tuscany, Umbria, Venice, Rome, Florence & Sienna |
| Voyages Ilena |
020 7924 4440 |
Well-regarded operator offering personally chosen apartments, villas with pools, and small hotels on Sardinia. |
| White Hat Tours |
020 7771 2681 |
Small specialist cultural tour operator, offering small group tours of Italian towns and cities. |
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