ReidsItaly.com Is an Indispensable Travel Planning Tool for Italy

For several years now, friends and acquaintences in travel journalism have been talking about Reid Bramblett's forthcoming Italy-focused website. Every time I spoke with Reid I asked how it was going, only to hear a labored sigh and a statement that he was chipping away, a couple of thousand words a day, at the awesome task.

Prior to the appearance of Reid's comprehensive discussion of Italy, the Internet possessed another example of a travel expert who had gathered into one website everything he knew about travel to a particular country. Turkey Travel Planner (www.turkeytravelplanner.com) by Tom Brosnahan was widely recognized as an important go-to site for anyone planning a trip to Turkey. It approached such a trip in a thoroughly logical and natural manner, setting forth the major questions that people ask on the eve of such a trip, and then answering those queries in the way that a travel expert speaking directly to you would do.

ReidsItaly.com (www.reidsitaly.com), which has finally been launched, follows much the same approach. Its format is totally logical: It approaches Italy by setting forth the major categories of knowledge that a traveler would want to consult, and then supplying advice in direct response to the questions that present themselves.

It deals, first, with the all the steps of travel planning for Italy and traveling both to and within Italy: Planning, Getting to Italy (including valuable tips on air transportation), Tours & Packages, Getting around Italy, Packing for your trip. It then discusses in depth seven major areas to which most American travelers go: Rome, Florence, Venice, Tuscany, Amalfi Coast and Capri, Campania and Cinque Terre. I assume it will eventually be expanded to cover Italy's secondary sights as well. But for the time being, it deals with the facts -- and makes the suggestions -- that would be regarded as important by 98% of all American travelers to Italy.

Reid Bramblett spent much of his childhood in Italy. He is fluent in Italian, has written several major guidebooks to Italy (including for Frommer's), has traveled there on scores of occasions, and has undoubtedly authored more newspaper and magazine articles on Italy than any other travel journalist.

If you have even a remote intention of someday traveling to that colorful land with its emotional people, its masterworks of art and architecture, its awesome history, its opera and theater, then you'll want to look at ReidsItaly.com, and after you do, you'll consult it whenever you are considering a trip there.

Source: http://www.frommers.com/blog/?plckController=Blog&plckScript=blogScript&plckElementId=blogDest&plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&plckPostId=Blog%3a3ec3ac40-db8a-4d10-a884-acf9ccad0879Post%3a3fa3311d-8154-463b-a46d-d199e8e566ba

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