Umbria and Rome small group vacation

Planet

CARBON REDUCTION

With a maximum of just 12 guests, this itinerary avoids crowded hotspots and reduces the environmental impact associated with large group tourism, while allowing deeper, more meaningful interactions with places and people.

In Allerona, several of our days are entirely car-free, as we stay locally and explore on foot. The products we serve at meals are 0km whenever possible, and we take our guests to restaurants we know are committed to serving sustainably grown/raised food, wine and other products from the local territory. With the meals we provide and those at restaurants, there are always vegetarian options and with enough notice, we can arrange for vegan offerings as well.

In Rome, we sightsee mostly on foot, and our golf cart tour is in an electric golf cart.

ENVIRONMENT AND WILDLIFE

Guests on this tour stay at our Six Keys Guesthouse, where we have a demonstrated commitment to green practices, including no single-use plastics, recycling bins and a filtered water dispenser.

Throughout the journey, travelers engage with authentic village life in Umbria, including nature walks, foraging, and agricultural traditions, fostering appreciation for seasonal rhythms and biodiversity. Our nature walk is led by an expert ethno-botanist who explains how humans, animals and the environment have interacted and interdepended over time.

People

LOCAL ECONOMY

The Springtime Immersive Umbria tour delivers tangible benefits to the local population and businesses while promoting sustainable tourism. The itinerary includes meals at local trattorie, wine and olive-oil tastings from nearby producers, and hands-on activities such as foraging and cooking with residents, ensuring that tour spending flows directly into the village economy and supports small, family-run enterprises.

In Rome, we stay at long-standing, locally owned hotels and work directly with liscensed tour guides and experience providers, rather than booking through third parties.

EMPLOYMENT, INCLUSIVITY AND DIVERSITY

Our commitment to Allerona and more broadly, to other depopulating villages in Italy, is to develop a tourism model that encourages new businesses and sustains existing ones.

One hundred percent of the people we employ or partner with are from Italy, and in Allerona, most of them are people born and raised in our village.

Our tours are open to friendly, fun-loving people from all races, nationalities and identities, including the LGBTQ+ community. Our tours are adaptable to people with slow mobility, and we have proudly hosted guests with special developmental needs.