
Learn travel planning and how to become your own travel agent, never pay more, and create your dream trips.
Learn to plan budget travel as a self travel agent by exploring sections on destinations, Italy tours in Florence and Tuscany, discovering Tuscany, and setting travel dates.
Plan your trip by mapping events, creating a Google Map of your itinerary, understanding jet lag and time differences, and setting days for each destination.
Explore sections 9–14 to plan your trip: compare cheapest airfares and routes, identify Italian places to visit, choose travellers and accommodation types, and book Florence stays, agro farms, and transportation.
Learn advance booking for domestic restaurants and the final budgeting of your trip. Get ready for your trip by packing your luggage and using books and dictionaries as travel resources.
Become your own travel agent and save on trips by booking flights, cars, and accommodations without a travel agency while learning budgeting, road maps, and five ready-to-go itineraries.
Set the destination and tailor a tour of Italy, focusing on Florence and Tuscany, where Renaissance art and architecture meet Michelangelo's David, Duomo, and olive groves.
Explore Tuscany's landscapes, tradition, and artistic legacy, and understand its influence on high culture as the birthplace of the Renaissance, with Florence as the regional capital and well-known museums.
Florence's historic heritage attracts millions of tourists and earned world heritage status, becoming the most visited city in 2012 with 1.8 million visitors, celebrated for Renaissance art, architecture, and monuments.
Explore San Gimignano's medieval hill town, famed for its dozen tower houses, encircling walls, and skyline, the UN's World Heritage Site, and its white wine from an ancient grape variety.
Explore Pisa's leaning tower and historic architecture in Tuscany as the provincial capital reveals churches, palaces, and bridges shaped by its maritime republic legacy.
Discover Florence's duomo, an iconic pink, white, and green marble masterpiece with a graceful bell tower, frescoes by Vasari, 44 stained glass windows, and construction from 1296 to 1436.
Explore the Tuscan countryside beyond rolling hills and vineyards to discover medieval towns, Renaissance time capsules, and art, architecture, and gastronomy that draw travelers.
Explore the world-famous leaning tower and the city’s gothic churches and renaissance piazza. Enjoy a vibrant, affordable cafe and bar scene with street life dominated by locals.
Discover Tuscany by using official travel sites to identify UNESCO World Heritage sites, including Florence, and plan what to do, places to see, and food and wine experiences.
Learn how to navigate event calendars to find summer festivals and markets in Tuscany, Italy, and France, with examples like the antiques market and related dates.
Discover how to navigate event schedules for your travel country by scrolling through articles, videos, and pages detailing Tuscany summer events, including Florence and Luminato.
Discover the event schedule with a sample featuring Looby Narya, spanning June 16–17 at Palazzo and surrounding dates in June 2015.
Explore a candle-lit festival marking the patron saint’s eve and feast day, with city celebrations in Pisa and Baeza and traditions dating back to 1688.
Explore the schedule of events for travel planning by examining the Babiole horse race in Sienna Italy, from June 29 to July 17.
Join the city’s premier annual event in CNO, on July 2 and August 16, featuring a historical pageant and a horse race in the heart of the Piazza del CUMPLE.
Explore a simple three-event fest in Florence on September 7, featuring tambour performances and activities from six to fourteen.
Explore the Colona festival of the paper lanterns, a Christian tradition on September 8 honoring the Virgin Mary, once drawing hundreds of pieces and farmers into the city.
Learn to read and organize a schedule of events with a focus on Tuscany, Italy, and dates August 10 to 18.
Explore a sample five-event travel schedule in Montepulciano, Italy, with dates from August 2015 to September 3, 2015.
Experience the Bravi liberty festival in Ciano, a town race across eight districts on the last Sunday of August, where banners duel for the patron saint amid panoramic surroundings.
Open the project page, create five trip samples, and arrange columns for events, days, group sizes, and starting countries to plan trips without a travel agency.
Create a personalized trip map on maps.google.com using the my maps feature, add markers for Florence, name your map 'Italy trip', and save.
Locate your trip plan on Google Maps by marking the cities you intend to visit, creating a practical map for saving on travel.
Explore the duration of road trips from Florence to Arezzo, from Arezzo to Sienna, from CNR to Pisa, and from Pisa to Florence using Google Maps.
Learn to find miles and kilometers between city pairs using Google search by typing drive from city to city and reading distance, with Florence to Siena and Pisa as examples.
Learn to estimate road distance and driving time between tuscan cities, including Florence to Arezzo, Arezzo to Siena, and Pisa to Florence, to plan efficient self-guided trips.
Understand how time differences trigger jet lag and fatigue after long flights. Recognize symptoms like disorientation, lack of concentration, and reduced motivation that hamper activities and enjoyment.
Learn how interrupted sleep from crossing time zones disrupts circadian rhythms, causing nighttime wakefulness and daytime sleepiness. Use the rule of thumb: one day per hour crossed to reset energy.
Explore how swollen legs and feet can hinder post-travel comfort, sometimes preventing wearing normal shoes for up to 24 hours. Learn how east-to-west travel eases time-zone adjustment compared to west-to-east.
Traveling east disrupts the body clock more than traveling west; use daylight exposure during the day, avoid morning light, and for long flights favor a 14 west transition.
Explore how to analyze time differences between global cities using Google, comparing New York, Florence, Tokyo, and Singapore to understand ahead or behind relationships.
Analyze time differences between New York and Florence and between Buenos Aires and Florence, noting Italy is six hours ahead of New York and four hours ahead of Buenos Aires.
Analyze time differences in travel planning by comparing Tokyo and Florence, noting an eight-hour ahead difference and that westbound travel poses fewer problems than eastbound.
Analyze time differences for travel planning by comparing Beijing to Italy and Singapore to Italy, noting seven hours ahead relations. Westward flights incur fewer time zone problems than eastward ones.
Set the places you wish to visit and assign the days for each location, including Florence, Arezzo, and the Baeza area with durations one day and two to three days.
Create a structured map of the trip by organizing the planned itinerary into the Ekso file.
Create a structured XLS file to plan a day-by-day travel itinerary with date, day of week, arrival and departure times, main events, and bookings in Florence, Siena, Arezzo, and Lucca.
Create a structured xls to plan a day-by-day trip with dates and arrival and departure times, booking Florence, Siena, Arezzo, and the pizza Mukha area around the main event.
Create a structured xls file to plan day-by-day travel program, including columns for days, dates, arrival and departure times, main events, and bookings for Florence, Arezzo, and pizza louca area.
Create a structured xls for sample 4 to plan a day-by-day trip, defining date columns, days of week, and arrival/departure times, plus booking in Florence with Siena, Pisa, and Lucca.
Learn to build a structured xls itinerary for sample 5, outlining day-by-day plans, arrival and departure times, main events with exact dates, and city choices like Florence, Siena, and Pisa.
Compare airfares to find the cheapest, shortest routes between cities using sites like Expedia and Orbitz, and choose flights with minimal stops and 3–5 hour layovers, noting arrival times.
Learn how to identify cheapest airfares and the shortest road from your home airport using travel dates, with a sample from New York City to Italy.
Compare airfares and flight options by price, review one-stop options, and view schedules to select the best return flight.
Find the cheapest airfares and shortest routes from Buenos Aires, Argentina, for events like the Pollio horse race, using home airports and travel dates from June 29 to July 17.
Compare one-stop airfares from Buenos Aires to Florence, weigh schedules and prices from Air France and Alitalia, adjust travel dates to secure the best option.
Discover airfares, cheapest and shortest routes from Tokyo, Japan to Florence, Italy for a September 6–14 trip to a three‑event fest, focusing on travel planning from home airport.
Compare airfares by price and itinerary, evaluate one-stop and return flight options, and display schedules and ticket prices on the site.
Discover the cheapest airfares and shortest routes for travel to Tuscany, Italy, from Beijing, China, for August 10–18.
Explore flight options by searching for available flights, compare prices, and choose the cheapest return flight with one stop for your selected dates.
Explore airfares that offer the cheapest and shortest routes for travel, focusing on dates of travel and the home airport of travelers from Singapore.
Discover how to find the best airfare options for sample 5 by evaluating flight schedules, return flights, and key fare details.
Compare cheapest and shortest air flights to build a cost-efficient self travel agent plan from New York City to Florence, noting dates and a sample price of 1294 dollars.
Plan a round-trip from Buenos Aires to Florence to attend the Palio in Siena from June 29 to July 7, with Alitalia, at 1,355 dollars per traveler.
Plan a KLM round trip from Tokyo, Japan to Florence, Italy for September 6-14, priced at $1,535 per traveler. Depart Tokyo September 6 at 1:15 p.m., arrive Florence 10:45 p.m.
Plan a Tuscany Italy trip from Beijing with September 10–18 dates, depart September 10 at 6:45 a.m., arrive Florance same day, depart September 18 at 9:50 a.m., price 1168 dollars.
Line up a travel option from Singapore to Montague Ciano, Italy, for the Broadview Della Botti event, August 25–September 3, 2015, with departures at 11 or 5 p.m.
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After taking this course you will know how to plan a trip to a country of your choice without travel agency.
You will never use a travel agency from now to book an airplane ticket, rental car and accommodation in any stars hotel or stylish farm house apartment in a hidden countryside hill.
You will get familiar with local historical, traditional, art and gastronomy events. You can use your skill when planing a trip to any country.
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You can budget your trip in a very comfortable format. 5 different ready-to-go trips from A to Z with budgeting, booking and road maps.