What are the shopping tours to Italy: with visits to which cities, for how many days? Are there excursions there?

Responds Nadezhda Petrenko, head of the department of Italy, UK, Ireland of the Russian Express company
Excursions are usually not included in the program of the shop tour, but they can be arranged for an additional fee.

If you talk about cities, visits that are included in the program of the shopping tour, then the most popular trips to Rimini (economy option) and Milan (shopping at a higher level). The average duration of a shopping tour is usually 4-5 days.

Answer Ekaterina Kulakova, Style Hunters agency
Shop tours are usually organized in Rimini. I've never heard of shopping tours to Milan, Rome or Venice.

Such a shopping tour usually includes a package of accommodation, an overview shopping and sometimes 1-3 excursions, depending on the tour operator. Shopping in this case is organized in Rimini, San Marino, Florence and Bologna. Occasionally, a visit to the shoe factories in the Marche region can be included.

Shopping goes as follows: all tourists board a bus and travel to outlets, warehouses, which are determined by the tour operator. Immediately I say - do not expect from such a program the most profitable places for shopping and places where the Italians dress themselves. This will be standard for Russian tourists places.

Such shopping tours are with minimal purchase and without. The minimum purchase is the minimum that you will have to spend on clothes and shoes in the places where the tour operator will bring you. If you do not spend this money, you are fined. This is a minus of such a tour.

If you do not want a group shop tour, you can organize an individual shopping tour. With individual shopping, a personal shopper works with you, which is a shopping route and takes you to the places you need. To correctly determine the program of the show tour, you should contact the travel agency and clarify the conditions of various tour operators.

May 4, 2011

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