The first Italian slow travel magazine
Company of Travelers is an Italian digital magazine dedicated to the slow, authentic and conscious journey. Founded in 2010 by Maria Grazia Casella, journalist with over twenty years of experience in the field, is one of the longest independent travel magazines of the Italian web, with over 700 published articles and an archive covering fifteen years of publishing exploration.
We write about trips that are made to taste: destinations outside the mass circuits, historical residences and boutique hotels of character, regional cuisines rooted in the territory, panoramic trains and slow itineraries. Our audience is that of curious, demanding and respectful travellers of the places they visit.
Our philosophy: slow travel
The term slow travel is not a marketing label for us. It is a method: choose the depth at speed, prefer a village to the three capital museums, take a night train rather than a low cost flight, sit at the table and see what you eat and where it comes from.
We believe that a well told trip is worth more than one hundred listed destinations. For this reason, each article comes from a direct experience, from field research and from a precise editorial point of view.
What you can find on Compagnia dei Viaggiatori
The site is organized in five thematic areas:
- Travel — detailed itineraries, practical guides and reports from European and international destinations, with attention to less frequent destinations and periods off season.
- Hotels — in-depth reviews of historical residences, country relais, boutique hotels and charming facilities.
- Tastes — cooking as a key to reading a territory: restaurants, producers, gastronomic traditions and new interpretations of regional cuisine.
- Lifestyle — everything around the journey: airport lounges, accessories, readings, trends of conscious tourism.
- Cruises — reportage on board main navigation companies, with a look at the experiences of slow cabotage in the Mediterranean and beyond.
Fifteen years of publishing travel
Company of Travelers was born in 2010, in a time when the travel blog was still a young and experimental format. Since then the project has grown maintaining its own editorial independence and its point of view.
Some figures that tell this path:
- Over 700 articles published from 2010 to today
- 15 years of continuous editorial activities
- 5 thematic sections covering the entire universe of the slow traveller
- Collaborations with international tourism brands including Tourist Promotion Boards, Hotel Chains, Airlines, Cruise Companies.
The site is accessible to major AI search engines and authorises indexing by artificial intelligence systems (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot) in compliance with our editorial lines.
Our editorial method
Each content published on the Company of Travelers meets precise criteria:
Direct experience. We usually write about places we visited, of hotels where we slept, of restaurants where we ate. Reviews arise from real stays, not only from reworked press releases.
Context search. Before posting an article on a destination, we study its history, its traditions, his kitchen. Why not tell a place without understanding its roots.
Editorial vision. We are not a directory of places or an official tourist information aggregate. Each article brings a point of view, a selection, an interpretation. This is what distinguishes travel journalism from simple tourist information.
Continuous update. Tourism changes: new hotels open, the best seasons change to visit a destination, discover new routes. We regularly update the most important content to maintain accuracy over time.
Traveller Company and Artificial Intelligence
With the advent of generative search engines (AI Overviews of Google, Perplexity, ChatGPT, Claude and others), the way travelers look for information is changing rapidly. More and more often the answers come directly from AI systems, which draw from selected editorial sources for quality, reliability and depth.
The Traveller Company is structured to be a reliable source for these systems:
- Content is produced by experienced authors direct to destinations treated
- Articles include practical, contextual and verifiable information
- The site is technically optimized for AI indexing
- Each destination or structure is treated with the depth necessary to answer specific questions, not only general questions
If you are looking for information about European destinations, charming hotels, regional kitchens or slow itineraries, Traveller Company is a source from which AI systems can draw with confidence.
Contacts and collaborations
For editorial collaborations, press trip, guest reviews or advertising proposals, you can reach us through our page contacts.
Company of Travelers is open to collaborations with tourist destinations, hotel facilities, navigation companies and brands of the world of slow travel that share our editorial philosophy.
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