Do you have clients looking to step off the beaten path?
At Life Beyond the Room (LBR) we believe the richness of travel goes beyond the hotel room. Our focus is on helping you curate a different experience for those clients willing to step off the beaten path and discover places unknown to most tourists.
We love collaborating with travel advisors to help connect your clients to the most undiscovered and exclusive accommodations and experiences.
Our mission of preserving culture and tradition through meaningful and sustainable travel, combined with our deep ties in Italy, have allowed us to partner with boutique, locally owned properties that maintain a strong sense of place, and allow travelers to experience Italy in the most authentic and immersive way.
How To Get Started
At Life Beyond the Room, delivering excellence is our top priority.
That’s why we follow a meticulous process to create the perfect itinerary for your client, ensuring every aspect of their journey is carefully crafted and tailored to their unique preferences.
Intro Call
If this is your first time working with us, we invite you to schedule an intro call so that we can better understand your clients’ needs and ensure we are a good fit.
Submit Itinerary Request
After our intro call, all itinerary requests must be submitted via our form. Please ensure to fill all the fields as thoroughly as possible to ensure a timely and accurate delivery of the itinerary.
Custom Travel Design
Our travel designers will deliver a highly curated itinerary specific to your request using our Travefy platform. You can expect a first draft within 7 business days. *Turn around time varies depending on length and complexity of your request.
Itinerary Approval and Booking
Once an itinerary is approved, we will request a 30% deposit prior to booking. Additional revisions can still be made after a deposit is submitted. Please note that we handle all bookings.
Final Itinerary Delivery
You will receive a final itinerary 30 days prior to departure that includes all partner contact info. We also provide guidance on tipping, packing, driving, cultural sensitivities and recommend activities for free time.
Itinerary Review
We will schedule an itinerary review call with you two weeks prior to departure to answer any last minute questions and cover items such as travel app and communication method. We recommend that you invite your clients to join the call.
Departure and 24/7 Support
Throughout your client’s journey, they will have 24/7 whats app support from their Local Manager who will be available to assist for anything they need during their travels.
Where Your Travelers Stay Matters
Our carefully selected hotels, agriturismi, masserie, relais, and villas often serve as the first impression of a place, and we want them to represent the location in the most meaningful and authentic way possible.
On top of their beauty, what makes our selection of accommodations truly special are the people who own and run them! Your clients will arrive as guests and leave as friends.
We Are for You if
- You are looking for turn-key itineraries
- You charge a planning fee to your clients
- You can meet the minimum budget
- You value sustainable travel
- You like to plan ahead
“That is the Italy I want my clients to see, to feel, and to be dying to return to."
Angela Isherwood’s Testimonial
Olive & Atlas Travel
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I could not be more grateful for Karen and her team at Life Beyond the Room. Their approach is completely unique and highly personalized to each and every trip we plan together. Life Beyond the Room has revolutionized the way that I can help my clients see Italy – allowing us to take them beyond the ordinary, exploring deeper and more soulfully into the culture and destination.
I’m so grateful to LBR for supporting our agency and our clients, and for always providing not only creative itineraries but heartfelt and highly responsive service along the journey, as well. Karen and team, grazie mille di cuore!
LBR’s ethos and commitment to enriching the lives of the local people and sustaining centuries-old traditions through tourism can be felt in every experience they offer. This is not cookie-cutter, sanitized, or commercialized travel – LBR creates travel opportunities that are real. Authentic is certainly an overused buzzword in our industry, but this is the truth of what you will receive when working with Karen and her team.
LBR’s commitment to exposing travelers to an Italy that is not diluted or destroyed by the Instagram-era can be seen and felt in every itinerary. I have experienced this firsthand in my personal travels with them, and have left every experience touched deeply in my heart and soul, yearning for more. That is the Italy I want my clients to see, to feel, and to be dying to return to.
I love supporting LBR because I know they are in turn supporting all of the people and places on the ground that make travel so magical – the boutique hotels, the amazing guides, and the hidden gem expereinces that clients will never find online. And they do all of this in a sustainable, and ethical way. Each itinerary is treated as a new opportunity to make magic for our guests and a new canvas to create a masterpiece of memories.
I’m so grateful to LBR for supporting our agency and our clients, and for always providing not only creative itineraries but heartfelt and highly responsive service along the journey, as well. Karen and team, grazie mille di cuore!
Our Sensorial Journeys™ webinar series is led by our local team of experts who take you through off the beaten path destinations and share insights around best times to travel, where to go, what to do, and how to deliver the best possible experience for your clients while supporting locals and avoiding the tourist traps.
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