Stefano Acquasanta – Guía local privado en Milan, Italy

I was born in Turin, class 1998. As I turned 14, like any student in italy, I had to choose my first kind of specialization and I chose the scientific one. Surely I also started developing some social skills and tendency towards the contact with people that I would have discovered later on. Meanwhile I also started liking history and arts much more than math. Nonetheless, at the age of 19 I decided to study Biotechnology at university. This led me to other kinds of expertises, and to other kind of skills. But as you can imagine, a research lab worker after some years of carrer really looks more alike research lab mice than an ordinary person. So I decided to end the bachelor and start travelling; I ended up in Spain, where I started working in bars and resturants. Here I started talking to people on my workplace again. I remembered how much I liked this contact at this point. The city I longer lived in was Seville, and there after a couple of years I started looking towards turism industry. A lot of turists from all over the world made me wonder if I could insert me in the market. So I started searching for ways to get a license: I found one right away in italy. Really did the whole thing online, and regressed to Italy just for a couple of week. I wrote a project and passed the final exam: I was now a tour leader and an ambiental guide. As I got back to seville I never stopped working with turist groups ever since. I like to create networks with other workers in order to have a lot of places and activities besides my tour to suggest to my clients. So I create a continous relationship between the territory and the people that I attend: I am an intermediator. I know and I understand the feeling of frustration between a person arriving in a new place and all the opportunities that it can offer: feeling like losing a better or the best option can represent a very distressing element for many. Also having a truer connection or interaction with someone living in a place can help creating the authenticity of a vacation, which is very much researched value by tourists.
Through the years, as I was also inspired by all the questions and matters that I met with this job, I also decided two years ago to join university again, this time for studying Philosophy and Art History.