TFL TOURS

28/01/2022

Today we are making our office more efficient and sustainable by replacing all the old windows with a new model of windows, which is eco-sustainable and has a virtuous production cycle.
These high-quality, high-performance windows are manufactured and produced using 100% recyclable PVC. And we are happy with this choice.
In terms of innovation, the new TFL office windows are state-of-the-art and will provide excellent thermal insulation, reducing energy waste. Another step towards a sustainable office! So proud!

29/11/2021

We are happy to announce and share with all of you TFL Tours' decision to officially engage in a path of corporate sustainability under the guidance and professional support of Travelife. After having adhered to and directly committed ourselves to the Safe Travel initiative promoted by WTTC, we decided to make a concrete contribution to environmental and social sustainability as well, by starting a plan to bring our company in line with Travelife standards and criteria and have engaged with the Travelife for Tour Operator & Travel Agents scheme.
Travelife is an internationally recognized, GSTC-Global Sustainable Tourism Council accredited training, management & certification program in sustainability in tourism.
The path of Travelife certification is divided into three phases: (1) Travelife Engaged, (2) Travelife Partner and (3) Travelife Certified, of which we are at stage (1) Travelife Engaged and working towards stage (2) Travelife Partner. The Travelife certification process is specific for companies operating in tourism and consists of a series of sustainability criteria that must be met. These cover the management, planning, monitoring and periodic reporting of the company's activities and the implementation of the tools needed to achieve sustainability and improve the company's social and environmental impacts.
Below is the address of the internet page where you can find all the information about the certification: https://www.travelife.info/index_new.php?menu=home&lang=en.
Over the past few months, we have been implementing a number of tools and drafting documents useful to meet the sustainability criteria of the report. And very soon, you will find available on our website (at http://www.tfltours.it/) our SUSTAINABILITY POLICY and the CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY STATEMENT that will be shared together with other content updates related to the choice of orienting the company towards a sustainable direction. So stay tuned!

13/08/2021

Yesterday, after 17 months of waiting, we had the great joy of welcoming and operating the services and tours for the cruise ship Europa 2 of the company Hapag-Lloyd... needless to say, we and all our guides had missed it so much and were so excited! Finally, we found our love again in Portofino

04/04/2021

19/03/2021

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05/02/2021

Few posts ago, we started introducing our team from our TFL President and CEO, Federica Tucci, whose interview is available for reading in the album ABOUT US, in our photos section on this page. And we want to continue, of course. At TFL, we are all very passionate about our job, but another essential component makes magic: Experience. Some of our team agents have a long and highly esteemed experience that they share every day, making us grow. One of them is Stefania. This is a short BIO: she enthusiastically started her collaboration with TFL Tours in 2007 offering her full reliability, strong dedication and a profound love of Italy in general and Tuscany in particular. She has been working as a licensed tour leader with cruise tours, and she is a licensed tour guide for Lucca and its province. Underlying her professionalism is her joy in helping foreign tourists to make their dream to visit Italy come true. She has studied English and French both in Italy and in London and Paris. She loves sharing her knowledge and, in the best Tuscan tradition, giving her honest advice to clients. On top of her qualifications in the travel business and multiple trainings on personal development, she adds the ability of creating a warm yet respectful rapport with people having attended human potential development and counselling schools for many years.

Enjoy our senior travel consultant and tour guide Stefania and her 5-question interview in this video!

05/02/2021

Discover who are the people who passionately and accurately work on clients' itineraries, experiences and events. Discover the eight women of TFL TOURS team!

13/01/2021

January is the time to present our second safe destination: Lucca. We are still in Tuscany, and Lucca is one of Tuscany's most beloved artistic towns. Nicknamed the 'City of a hundred churches' on account of its incredible number of worship places, it is unique among city-states for maintaining its independence until 1847. Its immense artistic and architectural heritage is ringed by the massive and intact circuit of defensive, gigantic walls built in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Today, they are among the few fortified systems that have arrived intact to our days. They run for more than 4 kilometres strengthened by no fewer than ten bastions. Lucca's people are very fond of their walls, they go there for walking and jogging, and on fine days, even for a picnic in the open air. A handful of few other things not to be missed: the Cathedral of San Martino, the garden in the sky situated at the top of the Guinigi Tower, the oldest square of Lucca, Piazza dell'Anfiteatro with its elliptical shape and the piazza and the sumptuous church of San Michele. But if guests take the chance to come and visit Lucca with us, they'll discover many other curiosities on the narrow streets of this old maze town. See you there!

31/12/2020

This year has been very demanding and also transformative. In a way or another, it has changed us. We have learnt a lot about health, resilience and the sense of community. Hopefully, this lesson will stay with us for the rest of our lives. But now it is time to keep travel dreams alive, turn the page and set sails to new adventures in a brighter 2021. Cheers to 2021! Happy New Year, dear Friends! Buon Anno!



the TFL Tours Team

23/12/2020

2020 has been a challenging year. During this celebration time, sometimes looking at the stars, everybody will be praying for 2021 to bring more stability in our lives and work. With this post, we are sending all our love and a hopeful wish for better days ahead. May the Holiday season end the present year on a cheerful note and make way for a fresh and bright New Year. Whatever is beautiful.
Whatever is meaningful. Whatever brings you happiness. May it be yours this Christmas holidays and throughout the coming year. Happy Holidays!

26/11/2020

The TFL Tours Team wishes a very Happy Thanksgiving to all our American friends who are celebrating today 🍂
And we also would like to take the chance to say thank you. Thank you to all agencies that have been cooperating with us through the years. All those who have trusted us as their partner in Italy, and in this way supported us too. We are truly thankful for this, and there is no better day than today to tell you.

20/11/2020

From the 17th to 19th November, TFL attended the 2020 Ensemble Virtual Conference titled Onensemble as On Location Partner. The video we are sharing was the welcome video at our virtual exhibit booth. Yesterday was the last day, and we would like to say thank you, thank you, thank you to the entire Ensemble team and to all those who connected with us joining us at our table during the networking events, visiting our booth or writing us a message. During the conference, we had to get used to the idea of a virtual environment; to meet virtually is so very different, but it was an outstanding experience and it was excellent to connect again with all the advisors and the team. We all miss travelling and being together, even if it was only virtual, gave positive energy to all of us. Caterina Pierini, one of TFL Travel Consultants who attended the conference, read a message yesterday in one of the chats of the Sessions which well matches our philosophy: “Authenticity is more important than perfection”. This is definitively the essence of TFL Tours. We are a group of eight “authentic” ladies, so different from one another but just perfect together as a group! And even if it was a virtual conference this year, we did our best to bring the authenticity of TFL Tours with us at the event.

28/10/2020

This week, TFL TOURS Wednesday quote is about freedom of thought, unstoppable hope and the power of action. Happy Wed!

21/10/2020

The Wednesday quote this week could not be more appropriate. It was great indeed to be back in action for another call of the French cruise line Ponant with the cruise ship called Le Jacques Cartier in Porto Santo Stefano, yesterday. This gave us another proof of the fact that it is possible to organize beautiful excursions also following all the strict protocols. Everybody joined our tours and being the day so beautiful, we kept a very relaxed rhythm giving guests a lot of time for pictures too. It was amazing to be able to work again with a cruise ship this year. And it was really emotional for the team. Au revoir Ponant et merci de tout notre coeur!

21/10/2020

Wednesday again and time to quote something motivating. Last week, our President, Federica Tucci, gave TFL quote of the week in her interview. Today, we get back to habit posting it directly to energize us and make us just a little more resilient. Here it is:

15/10/2020

This week, we would like to start from the beginning, and the very beginning is people, the people who make the company, who work in it creating the offer, the service.
At TFL, we are a team. We work as a team sharing ideas, doubts, opinions, research, decisions, failure and success; all the different aspects of our job and stages of the processes. And we become what we do while working. So, we would like to introduce ourselves while also keeping you posted on our activities. This is Federica Tucci, TFL President and CEO, and here it is also a 5-questions interview she answered.

08/10/2020

We are so glad today to share with all of you our joy and commitment for the next Ensemble Conference, which is going to be on November the 17th. The Ensemble Conference is going virtual this year, and we are going virtual too, but our partnership is real and long-standing, so we are not missing the event. We cannot wait to participate!

07/10/2020

In the middle of the week, we all need a little recharging. Here is our Wednesday quote for you:

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good. ― Elizabeth Edwards

Thanks for reading!

05/10/2020

WELCOME TO TUSCANY! Benvenuti, and welcome to our first safe destination: Bolgheri. A hidden, quiet village totally immersed in the green countryside of the Tuscan South, in the so-called upper Maremma, on the beginning of the Etruscan coast, looking at the blue Tyrrhenian Sea. But what is so peculiar there? The wines, the vineyards panorama and the wineries. One of them is a design jewel by Renzo Piano. One of our big poets was born here and also dedicated a poem to its birthplace. When guests decide to do this tour of ours, they find out the discovery is worth the visit.

05/10/2020

Happy Monday! We hope you had a lovely weekend. Ours was truly unique and exciting! A real new start for us!! It was very emotional to be the official tour operator of Le Bellot, last Saturday. We operated their shore excursions with maximum safety and attention for the guests and the local community. After an almost entire year of stop, we had tears in our eyes when we saw this astonishing ship in Portoferraio. Thank you, Ponant for the courage to restart! Our teams together demonstrated shore excursions in the “new normal” are possible, and we can make it!
We support you in full!

01/10/2020

30/09/2020

Let’s start the day with an inspiring quote:

On the other side of a storm is the strength that comes from having navigated through it. Raise your sail and begin. ― Gregory S. Williams

Thanks for reading!

28/09/2020

During these difficult times for the Travel and Tourism industry, we are doing our utmost to guarantee a safe and smooth restart and to welcome our guests back at the highest standards. For this reason, we are very proud to communicate that TFL Tours has achieved the Safe Travels Stamp in compliance with the global protocols required by the World Travel & Tourism Council. Our website shows the logo now. Please, have a look visiting: www.tfltours.it. And read more about the Safe Travels campaign on WTTC’s website at https://wttc.org/COVID-19/Safe-Travels-Global-Protocols-Stamp.

But SAFE TRAVELS also means SAFE DESTINATIONS. Discover our safe destinations weekly on Monday: stay tuned!