Archive for April, 2007

by Stefano
on Apr 30th, 2007

Latest news for tourism in Italy

More tourists for long spring weekends in Italy and especially in Sicily:  The long weekends of spring have been a great success for all Italian art cities. According to the latest data, Venice can count on a 9% increase in tourism flows (check here Agrigento templesTravel Mall Venice hotel rates), with Florence at 7% (Travel Mall Florence hotel reservations), and Rome and Milan at 3%: very good performances for Syracuse ad Agrigento in Sicily with a 6% increase (Travel Mall offers in Sicily). The presence of Italian visitors seems to have slightly decreased, while tourists coming from countries in the European Union are growing well, with Spain, France, Germany and Great Britain leading the way.

Italy is the third incoming destination in Europe: Despite the growth of other areas, Europe remains the leading tourism zone of the world, this was the announcement made by the President of the “Italian Tourism Authority”, Umberto Paolucci, during a meeting with Italian members of parliament on “Italian Tourism and PadovaEurope” in the city of Strasburg. “We are talking about a market that registers the highest level of incoming with more than 300 billion dollars in revenues for international arrivals, at a share of 425 million arrivals, of which more than 50% determined by the residents of individual countries,” explained Paolucci. “The results are good for Italy, which is in third place after Spain and France.”  Travel Mall focus all the efforts to offer the best choice of travel services to his clients, please check the Travel Mall website.

Alitalia on strike on May 3rd: We reconfirm the strike of the Alitalia personnell on May 3rd.

 

by Stefano
on Apr 6th, 2007

April, Italy tourism high season starts.

Tuscany in first place amongst destinations for Easter holidays: according to the data of the Tourism Observatory of Unioncamere-Isnart, Tuscany has earned first place amongst the destinations chosen for the Easter holidays. A total of 16.5% of tourists who will move on the peninsula - approximately 7 million people - will spendPalio the long Easter weekend in Tuscany (Travel Mall offers a wide choice of hotels in Tuscany for your booking). It is followed by Veneto (Venice hotel offer), (9.9%), Piedmont (9.1%), Liguria (8.3%) and Lazio (7.3%). Florence (Florence hotel offer)(3.3%) and Rome (Rome hotel offer) (6.2%) concentrate the greatest number of Easter tourists, followed by Siena (Siena hotel offer) (2.1%) amongst the art cities. It will be a record Easter also for the more than 15,000 holiday farms in our country, with Tuscany amongst the preferred regions together with Lazio, Umbria, Sicily and Basilicata.

Positive signs for Easter at Florentine hotelsEaster will be positive for the hotel sector in Florence and the province, at least according to the data prepared by AIA Federalberghi Firenze from the responses to a questionnaire distributed to all associates in the province. “It will not be an Easter with full occupancy perhaps in Florence2007, but tourism has confirmed itself in good health and movement seems to be in further growth respect to last year, as far as regards art cities in general and Florence in particular,” confirmed the study. “Few business expect a decrease in activities, while those that indicate a stable situation boast room occupancy percentages that are rather good in many cases,” stated a press release by Federalberghi. Travel Mall offers hotels in Florence to book online and also private services as transfers or excursions.

“Matrimoni a Venezia”, marketing operation: getting married in Venice. To prepare itself for the many marriage requests that arrive from around the world the AVA (Association of Venetian Hoteliers) has created the “Just married in Venice” manual. The main clients for this type of event come from America, France, England Venice Canal Grandeand Japan. The manual is dedicated to sector operators to help them organize the event in the best way possible and, according to the AVA, it is a true marketing operation for the cities and all of Italy. Travel Mall is ready to accept your request for the organization of wedding in Italy and in Venice in particular.