Viaggi e Avventure nel Mondo (Travel and Adventure in the World) is a rare entity in the world of agencies in Italy. Founded in 1970 on the initiative of two friends, it has been offering for 50 years a select trip, based on bringing other people together according to their interest in a destination, adopting a very adventurous and affordable approach.
Since its inception, the undeniable concept at the heart of Viaggi e Avventure nel Mondo has accompanied generations of Italians on their travels around the world. Despite a number of technological advances, it remains a popular technique today. Over time, in fact, other types of companies have emerged, also based on offering express itineraries to teams of foreigners. However, Avventure nel Mondo (AnM for short) is the oldest of its kind and is still very popular. Each year, around 50,000 participants take part in their trips.
The concept is undeniable and straightforward. On the website, the organization offers a list of available destinations, classified by date of decomposition. Each month, travelers can choose from dozens of destinations around the world. Once they have decided on a destination, they make a first reservation through paying a first rate. Then they wait to see if the holiday is confirmed. Each offers calls for a certain number of participants to validate the holiday. Each vacation is assigned a coordinator, another traveler who has already traveled to that destination. or more often than you have traveled enjoys with AnM. In addition, on vacation, one of the participants will offer himself as treasurer, managing the fund that the organization will create to cover local expenses. In fact, it’s also part of the agency’s original plan. Concept: pooling resources to reduce costs.
Avventure nel Mondo was born from the concept of Vittorio Kulczycki and Paolo Nugari, who studied tourism in combination and shared a hobby for traveling, especially in remote and remote positions. His first vacation, which is also what gave the concept for the call. of the organization – took position in 1970 in Elburz, a mountainous diversity in northern Iran. In that moment, travelers coalesced around an undeniable concept: finding affordable flights, and then the rest of the organization followed. is available via the web (reservations and the like), and improvisation is much less common, the spirit behind AnM’s travels today remains largely the same. That is, a genuine preference for adventure and discovery.
Once the holiday is confirmed, participants pay the charge for flights, local transportation and travel insurance. The pooled fund will be used to cover accommodation and meals once the organization arrives at its destination. If the itinerary is more or less established upstream, the organization of the holidays is in the hands of the total organization, and the members (usually between five and five people) plan internally the imaginable adjustments to the route.
There are other types of travel deals available. Along with the vintage type (called “Adventure”), there are the “Discovery” itineraries, which are intended for travelers between 18 and 40 years old; Then, special gifts for mountain experts, family circle packages for those traveling with young people and shorter itineraries for those who have limited time to travel. Very often, travel teams are formed even a few weeks before the scheduled departure date – one of the benefits. of traveling with AnM, in fact, is that travel prices remain the same at all levels before the departure date. Another facet of AnM also appreciated by travelers is that it allows encounters between other people of all ages and backgrounds, making encounters imaginable. among other people who otherwise would not have the possibility of meeting.
“Two words, tourism and travel, will never be synonymous for us at Avventure nel mondo,” the authors say in their publications. time a short vacation lasted 25 days, now rarely lasts more than 3 weeks), the friendly and passionate technique is maintained. It is incorporated into travel articles that are collected and shared in AnM magazine, published twice a year, with the intention of motivating and motivating more travelers along the way. And it’s in the stories of those who tell their experiences to others.
Having remained “well hidden” for years, “we have never been interested in reaching the general public. We feel like an elite, an organization of enthusiastic travelers,” they say, the founders are very determined to do it. “If you make the decision to travel with Adventures in the World of which you are a client, we provide you with the minimum equipment to organize a vacation and we invite you to fully tell the difficulties and tactics to achieve it, with a spirit of openness and deep collaboration with both the coordinator and your travel companions, so that in addition to the adventure of traveling you can locate the human adventure that enriches your experience. “