Amber Road Tours, Inc is a U.S. company
registered in the state of Florida, a member of the American
Society of Travel Agents and the Better Business Bureau of
Panama City; providing coach tours only in central and south Italy.
“We have many years experience working as tour organizers and
escorts. Living in Tuscany and Umbria, we know the places, the
people and their customs well. We do a limited number of tours
each year, allowing us to give particular attention and care to
your group.”
US born Jonathan Bassett began organizing and leading tours in
the early nineties while living in his home country. A well seasoned
traveler, from the first time he set foot in Italy, in 1995, he knew
he had found a special place. Enjoying the wonderful Italian people,
food, wine, art and history, he found himself wanting to share the
experience with other travelers. After teaching English in Italian
middle and high schools for several years and struggling to learn the
language, he then spent some summers working as a tour escort for
a large company. But the large group tour experience felt inadequate
for seeing and experiencing the Italy that he knew and loved, and so
he decided to work on his own.
Sonya Conti is originally from Northern Italy. A graduate in Fine
Arts from the Università degli Studi di Milano, she has worked
for many years as a translator for magazines and book publishers.
She met Jonathan while traveling in India and eventually joined him in Tuscany to create this new venture.
Currently, when she is not taking care of the hotel, restaurant
and local guide bookings or busy developing new itineraries she
still finds time to translate books, mostly light horror for adolescents.
Sonya and Jonathan have been organizing tours in Italy since 2002.
They incorporated Amber Road Tours in the US in 2004. |