There are at least two ways to do the travel agent work: one is to, serious and professional mind you, to indicate to the second of the demands of a holiday destination, showing brochures and searching facilities, special offers, value relationships. The other is to excite the customer and maybe direct you to places you may then enter the heart. A little 'sentimental, a bit' psychologist, a little 'adventure companion.
Fabrizio Labianca, Tuscany Sansepolcro, for fifteen years carries out this type of profession and is responsible for dozens of "sick of Africa" ​​especially in Watamu.
"I fell in love Kenya thanks to my father, who sent me over to the job of organizing trips, even a passion for Africa, already after the first holiday here. Since then, every year, I can organize a group of people to make them live an emotion that goes beyond the simple trip to another continent, to the sea or to warm or even on safari ".
Fabrizio has a healthy passion, which cultivates a long time and has led him to immerse himself in the reality of the Kenyan coast by attending the local population, learning Swahili, learning new things every time with the curiosity of one who is at home and wants to partaker also other people a feeling that feels wonderful.
"After four or five days I can already see some of the clients who come to Watamu with me, changing expression and relax completely - explains Fabrizio - it is the first tangible sign of nostalgia for Africa. From the feeling of pleasure and tranquility you pass the desire to know the nice things about these places, the simplicity of the people and their serenity even in conditions of poverty that we know, the wonder of nature where you can dive, the philosophy of life which takes into account the time and its scanning multiple rhythms lenses and close to our hearts ".
Fabrizio loves to travel the world and in the past has tried to find other countries that did it feel so comfortable and at ease.
"I love Brazil and occasionally for work and pleasure go there, in the land of" saudade "but can not be compared with the pain of Africa. The last time I just said, one thing is to work, but my real holiday, the staff, it is only in Kenya ".
Thanks to him now in Watamu, a good group of Italians who every year come back to vacation here and in turn make proselytes, inviting other friends who inevitably will be infected by the syndrome known.
this year Fabrizio also took them to a resort of the tourist town Kenyan and memorable tour of beaches, villages to meet the local people, all happy to have spent a traveler, more than tourists vacation.
And he, the innamoratore, laughs and perhaps does not know that much more than a travel agent of the second type.
It 'a passionate promoter of tourism as it should be lived and shared Kenya.