Travel Company Profiles
Our interviews with travel businesses - vacation rental agencies and owners, farms and estates, small group tours, tour guides, etc. They tell us about their business and share their travel tips.
Vacation Rentals in Italy
Brigolante Guest Apartments: Three vacation rentals on a farm near Assisi, in Umbria. Rebecca Winke. March 2010
Italian Vacation Villas: Vacation rentals in Tuscany, Umbria and other parts of Italy. Alice Tetelman and Martin Wenick, Washington DC. August 2009
Italy Perfect: Vacation rentals in Rome, Florence, Venice and a few countryside locations. Lisa Byrne and Pat Byrne, San Francisco and Boston. November 2008
La Bella Toscana: Vacation rentals in Tuscany, Umbria and the Amalfi Coast. Colle Val d'Elsa, western Tuscany. January 2009
Sant'Antonio Country Resort: Estate with vacation rentals in Tuscany, near Montepulciano. Nico and Elena Pannevis. January 2010
Summer in Italy: Vacation rentals on the Amalfi Coast, the Cilento Coast and other regions of Italy. The Trotta family, Salerno, near Amalfi. August 2008
Valle Nuova: Vacation rentals and B&B on a farm near Urbino in Le Marche. Giulia Savini. May 2010
Vacation Rentals in France
Riviera Pebbles & Nice Pebbles: Vacation rentals on the French Riviera and Nice. Matthew and Gayle Roberts. March 2009
Au Chicot: Jane Bennett runs Au Chicot, a house in Gascony, in southwest France. April 2010
Vacation Rentals in England
Broadway Manor Cottages: Vacation rentals on an estate on the edge of Broadway in the Cotswolds. Debbie and Ross Williamson. January 2010
Vacation Rentals for All of Europe
Interhome: Vacation rentals throughout Europe. Offices in most European countries and represented by Resort Quest in North America. June 2008
Rentvillas.com: Vacation rentals throughout Europe (Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Turkey, Switzerland). Suzanne Pidduck and Kevin Pidduck, California. October 2009
Untours: European vacation packages featuring one or two week stays in vacation rentals. August 2010
Other Profiles of Travel Businesses
New York Times, Collecting Houses in Northern Italy, by Anne Glusker, March 2009. This article is about Toni Hilton, of Casa in Monferrato. Toni says there is one mistake - "tuffo isn't soft, the bottles don't get pushed into it".