“Minnesotan Mad about Italy”

Annie Ojile Nerone is a native Minnesotan born into an Italian-American family. She first experienced Italy studying abroad as a college student. She instantly knew that someday this country would be her permanent home. With a degree in both Italian Language and Culture and Apparel Production and Marketing, Annie’s post-graduate years were spent working in the fashion industry and media production. All the while, she continued to study the Italian language in anticipation of the dream she kept tucked away. In 2005, Annie was finally able to pack up her Prada and turn her love for everything Italian into a career as founder of Rome and Tuscany Tours. Two years after she moved to Rome she drove her first motorino and it was just a matter of time before she would be leading Vespa tours of Rome and Scooteroma was born !!

Then one hot summer day the Scooter Maven walked into a hotel to pick up clients for a Vespa tour and she met…

Giovanni Nerone has spent his entire career in the tourism and hospitality industry. He learned the business and became head concierge at the 5 star Exedra Hotel, after 3 years he was recruited to the top 5 star accommodation in Rome, Hotel de Russie. Giovanni can anticipate every aspect of customer needs. Fluent in English and Spanish in addition to Italian he was born and raised in Fiuggi, Italy. Giovanni intimately knows the wonderment of his native country.