Nina, eldest child to Vita Italian Tours founders, Mario & Viny Vitellone, is the newest member to join the Vita Italian Tours/Pronto Travel team. With an abundance of worldly travel experience, and having recently moved back home to Melbourne after seventeen years living in Florence, Italy. Nina’s move home has brought to the family business a rich Italian knowledge.
Having travelled to Italy as a nine years old with her Zia and Nonna, it’s on this trip her love affair with Italy began. Immersing herself in the Italian heritage, to fully understand her family’s roots, after graduating at 23, Nina enrolled to attend Scuola Dante Alighieri, a language school in Florence, giving her the opportunity to refine the Italian language properly.
Nina was always going to be the perfect fit. Returning home meant she would have an opportunity to become part of the family business. Her experience living and working in Italy means she holds a lot of knowledge in Italy’s customs, procedures and her hands-on-experience means she can offer Mario and Gianni an insight in the way things are done by the Italians. Plus, over the years, she has help lead many of the tours, so it felt right that Nina joined a business her father started, out of his love and pride of Italy.