Italy is Under Total Lock Down
This is having a devastating effect on local businesses.
About Us
We are proud to say that Artviva is the leading tour company in Florence, Italy.
Since 1996 we've been acclaimed for virtuoso excellence and exclusive access to the very best of Made in Italy.
With thousands of 5-star reviews; we are recommended by every major industry travel guide.
We have a unique-theater company background and are TV & Film producers as well as extraordinary event providers. We know how important it is to capture every moment and make it a wonderful experience.
With exclusive access to museums, palaces and hard to get into private venues, we offer innovative high-quality experiences with the best of Italian Excellence. We open doors.
With regular high-quality small group tours -we also organise bespoke experiences in Italy’s art cities of Florence, Venice, Rome, Milan and beyond.
We are acclaimed for our innovative tours that bring the history of Italy to life.
We are known for our great customer care.
Most importantly; we are licensed tour operators. Being based here in Florence we pay local taxes and we proudly support a sustainable local community.
We support a community of hundreds of people-guides, historians, artists, authors, actors, artisans, drivers, chefs, restaurants, bars and wineries, cheese makers and truffle hunters-not to mention our wonderful staff here in Italy.
We have a vast collective knowledge base with our experts that are leaders in their fields here in Italy.
We pride ourselves on providing access to our amazing art, culture and history here in Italy.
We love connecting you to our Italy. The Italy of the past and the Italy of today.
Why Fund Us
Italy is closed. Our art and history, our food and wine, our wonderful artisans, the Italy we love is under lock down. The community we support is facing collapse.
So that our community can survive, we’ve created this crowdfunding campaign to provide work and enable ourselves to survive until we can welcome you to Italy again. Plus we think its a great idea to have mini virtual study experiences so that you can dive into and get to know more about Italy before you come and go a little deeper and expand on your Italian travels when you get home.
What We Need & What You Get
- Our aim is to raise 50,000 Euros.
- Funding will go towards setting up virtual study experiences and for research and training for our experts for new experience and event designs.
- Funding will go to ensuring our staff stay employed and for communicating to our clients, partners and great supporters, like you.
Unique Perks
As Indiegogo perks, we are offering Italian experiences and some great new experiences so that you can support us, our great team and our community. We will be offering some wonderful special perk events as well.
- Special VIP access to our Future of Food Weekend Luxury Event with a World Leading Chef
- A Private Tuscany Tour
- A Private Secrets of the Renaissance Tour in Florence
- Insights into the Search for the World's Greatest Masterpiece with a World Leading Expert
- A Semi Private Florence Walking Tour
- A Semi Private Uffizi Gallery Tour
Virtual Master Class Experiences
We are also going to use your funding to begin offering virtual master class study experiences for you to get to know more about our Italy. This will provide work while Italy is under lock down and will be a way for you to enjoy and learn more about Italy while we are under lock down. Our amazing experts from all over Italy will conduct the virtual study tour visits.
Here are just some of the virtual experiences we would like to provide:
- Machiavelli-What would he do today?
- The Medici and Banking-Godfathers of the Renaissance
- Artemisia Gentileschi- An Amazing Feminist Baroque Artist
- Michelangelo-Delving Deep into the Creation of The David
- Amazing Women in Italy-Venice
- A History of Gayness in Florence
- Sex, Drugs and the Renaissance-Go Behind the Curtain
- Lost in Florence-a Virtual Visit
- How to Buy the Perfect Truffle
- Foraging for Wild Herbs in Your Backyard
- Botticelli's Birth of Venus
- The Black Plague of 1348-Then and Now
Make a Suggestion!
We would love to hear your ideas for a virtual master class study experience. Tell us what you would like!
The Impact
We ask for your support to create a sustainable love for the beauty art and culture of Italy and by doing so create and provide work for our community while Italy is under lock down.
We need your help because everybody working here in tourism and has lost their incomes.
And in a few months’ time when the crisis is over, we would like to welcome you to our Italy with open arms. In the mean time we will provide some great virtual study tour insights so you can enjoy learning more about Italy.
Having provided thousands of amazing experiences and events over the years and having built a great team of experts all over Italy, we feel confident we can achieve our funding aims.
The Challenge
We will need to co ordinate with our amazing experts to design and implement the online virtual Italy study experiences. Train our team to answer inquiries and implement the appropriate communications softwares.
We can overcome the hurdles, having a theater company background, event experience and film and TV production expertise we know how to jump hurdles and get things done-even if it seems impossible.
Our Plan For Overcoming Our Challenges
- Have our experts design the online virtual master class experiences
- Have our experts work with us to design our new experiences
- Train our experts to use the softwares
- Train our staff for handling inquiries
- Implement the softwares
- Test
- Deploy
Our plan if we do not reach the funding goal is to use whatever we receive to provide work and employment for our community and our staff and to make the online video masterclasses most requested as well as paying for basic running costs of our business and rent.
Other Ways You Can Help
You may not be able to contribute to our crowdfunding campaign, but you can help by helping us make some noise about our campaign and by:
- Making a reservation (voucher for use at locked in prices up to 2022)
- Purchasing a gift certificate from us (voucher for use at locked in prices up to 2022)
at our web site www.artviva.com
- Liking, commenting on and sharing our posts
- #Artvivatours #Helpartvivaunlockitaly
https://www.instagram.com/artviva/
https://www.facebook.com/ArtVivaTours/
- Joining our affiliate program and earning great commissions
https://www.artviva.com/become-a-partner/
- and don't forget use the Indiegogo share tools!
