Angelo Carotenuto
Founder and CEO of LivTours
Angelo Carotenuto, is a seasoned tour guide and the Founder and CEO of LivTours, who hails from the picturesque city of Rome, Italy. With a passion for tourism that ignited in 2004, Angelo embarked on his journey as a tour guide, steadily accumulating experience and expertise.
Driven by a vision of redefining how tour guiding is perceived and executed, Angelo transitioned into an entrepreneurial role, establishing LivTours. This tour guiding company has rapidly expanded its footprint, offering guided tours in over 25 European destinations and catering to an impressive annual count of over 300,000 passengers.
Angelo's entrepreneurial journey was marked by perseverance, navigating the highs and lows to carve out a distinctive space in the tour guide industry. LivTours, under Angelo's leadership, has consistently been recognized as the Best of the Best on Tripadvisor, attaining the top 1% of all experiences-a testament to the effectiveness of his workshops and tour guiding model.
In the world of tour guiding, Angelo distinguishes between general know-how and academic/content knowledge, highlighting the latter as a product of study, research, and interest. However, he emphasizes that it's the former, the nuanced delivery of information, that truly sets a tour guide apart. For Angelo Carotenuto, it's not just about what you say but how you say it-a philosophy that has propelled LivTours to its position of excellence in the world of guided experiences.
