Colosseum tours, compared

How we checked licences. In Italy, a company that organises and sells tours must run as a licensed travel agency or tour operator: it files a SCIA or holds an authorisation from its region or province (older Rome licences were issued by the Province of Rome), and the number is normally printed in the footer or the terms. Its guides need a separate guida turistica licence. We looked for the agency number on each operator's own website and copied it exactly as printed. 9 of 23 publish one — shown above. Parco archeologico del Colosseo, Crown Tours, City Wonders, The Roman Guy, Gray Line I Love Rome, Rutas Romanas, Carpe Diem Tours, Enjoy Rome, Tour in the City, ItaliaTours, Walks of Italy, Maximus Tours, Through Eternity Tours, Touriks: real, reviewed operators that don't list a number publicly; we mark them unverified rather than omit them. We excluded aggregators and booking portals, which are not operators.

Left out. We list companies that sell Colosseum tours under their own name and website. Several of the most-booked partner sellers publish no website of their own, so they appear in the bookable list above but not in this table. We also left out ticket resellers and city-pass sellers, an agency that is mainly a sales point for other operators, a chauffeur service whose Colosseum trips include no guide, a seller whose own site gives no company details and a contact address on a free email service, and food and free walking tours that do not go inside the Colosseum.

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