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Reference: Travel Guide Lonely Planet recommends Toscana Forum and Villa In Toscana Report: Toscana Forum at the F.re.e 2010 Tourism & Leisure Exhibition in Munich Report: Dr. M. Schmitt reports on Toscana Forum: www.qualitätslotse.de Article: Toscana Forum at the Travel Market Rhein-Neckar-Pfalz 2010 in Mannheim ............................................................................................................................................................ Lonely Planet, 2nd. German Edition 2009 (Italien, by D. Simonis) The popular and well-known travel guide Lonely Planet recommends and lists Toscana Forum Nr.1 under the Top 10 best online addresses for holiday rentals & places to stay in Tuscany. In its second German edition („Italien“ by Damian Simonis), Lonely Planet recommends the holiday rental and internet travel agency Toscana Forum top of its list of internet addresses for holiday accommodation and places to stay in Tuscany. Also rated by Lonely Planet but slightly further down and 4th on the list, is the holiday villa with pool In Toscana   www.urlaubtoscana.de. Both the internet travel agency and the holiday villa belong to Frau Santoni. Lonely Planet, Italien by Damian Simonis 2nd. German Edition, January 2009 - pg. 532 - ISBN 978-3-8297-1606-2 P.S. For competive reasons the internet addresses of the other agencies are not allowed to be published and have been rendered unreadable. Frau Santoni was first made aware of the entry in the Lonely Planet travel guide by chance on 15.7.2010 (approx. 1 year and 7 months after it having been published and released on the market), when an enquiring customer contacted the agency having seen the mentioned recommendation. He then forwarded the above scanned excerpt per email. Extract from the email correspondence with the customer, Herrn Quast: -----Original Message----- From: Christian Quast Sent: Thurs 15.07.2010 12:48 To: Elisa Santoni Ref: Re: AW: AW: BOOKING / RENTAL CONTRACT AGREEMENT Agriturismo Volterra 4 Elisa Santoni wrote: > Dear Herr Quast, > > YOUR BOOKING CONFIRMATION WILL BE SENT TO YOU SHORTLY! > > Thank you for your booking and also many thanks indeed for the > scanned text from Lonely Planet .... > I wasn't at all aware of my fortune ... and www.urlaubtoscana.de > (my own holiday villa) is also mentioned!! > > Would you mind if I bothered you with a few more questions...?? > Which edition of lonely Planet? Which year? and the author ?? > > > I would be extremely grateful, > > Best regards > Elisa Santoni I too can imagine that you must be very pleased and it was also for us a great way of finding your agency.:-) It concerns the 2nd German edition which is based on the 8th English edition. ISBN 978-3-8297-1606-2 Looking forward to receiving the booking confirmation. Regards Christian Quast top 18.2.-22.2.2010 F.RE.E 2010, Tourism & Leisure Exhibition in Munich The following photos show our Toscana Forum Stand (B5 203, Tor 4) at the Tourism and Leisure Exhibition "F.re.e" 18.2.-22.2.2010 in Munich, with the Toscana Forum team: Vanessa Hayward (editorial department- English), Elisa Santoni Gabrielides (mangaging director and owner), and Frau Cristina Spina (proprietress of the Agriturismo Il Palazzo) "in action". Here presenting holiday accommodation for the following regions: Tuscany, Umbria, Lake Garda, Liguria Toscana Forum On vacation with dogs Tuscany with dogs Sardinia Sardinia Sardinien Sicily Sicily Forum top February 2010 www.qualitätslotse.de reports on Toscana Forum Dr. Michael Schmitt from Web-Portal www.qualitaetslotse.de visited our stand at the travel market in Mannheim and, after a profound conversation and in-depth interview and on careful examination of our website, was convinced of the quality and range of our selected holiday accommodation and consequently published an article about us. (see below) Full article www.qualitaetslotse.de is an internet platform with articles and reports about companies and enterprises mainly around the Rhein-Neckar region. top 07.01.-09.01.2010 Travel Market Rhein-Neckar-Pfalz in Mannheim At the Travel Market in Mannheim we were cited by the press and especially commended and highlighted for our category: On vacation in Tuscany with dogs (www.toscana-forum.com/vacation_with_dog.html). Here are 3 examples of publications in various newspapers! Viernheimer Tageblatt, 28.12.2009 Speyerer Morgenpost, 07.01.2010 Morgenmagazin, 07.01.2010 top ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 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