Meetings & congresses in Italy: Italy has to confirm itself as a point of attraction of the world, cultural and tourism place and congress pole. This is the country imagined
by the Minister of Cultural Means & Events Mr. Francesco Rutelli in a recent meeting in Rome that outlined the birth of a congress district in Rome. Travel Mall gives to DMC and private companies the possibility of organizing meetings, congresses and special events alla over Italy by asking a personalized quotation through the group page or sending an e-mail to info@travel-mall.net.
New flight connections between USA and Italy: American Airlines bets on Italy, the US air carrier announced that, starting this year, the flights New York/Rome and Chicago/Rome will be operated on annual basis. From next April 10th to October 28th the flights will be on daily basis, during winter time Chicago flight will be 4 times per
week and New York flight 3 times per week. “This is an extremely positive news for tourism in Rome”, said Mrs. Maria Pia Garavaglia, councillor for tourism in Rome, adding “this is the proff that Rome is becoming a more compettive international tourism attraction. For this reason Travel Mall has the widest choice of Rome hotels you can book online: 2 & 3 star hotels in Rome , 4 star hotels, 5 star hotels at your disposal.
Umbria, an emerging tourist reality: The Governor of the Umbria region has recently celebrated the reached goal of 6 millions tourists in her region. The last years have confirmed the growing interest of the foreign visitors in this incredible part of Italy. Travel Mall offers several choices of accommodation so, for example, you can book your hotel in Assisi and Perugia.
A recent study of the Italian Tourist Board foresees a 2007 with a strong recover of 
the tourist flows from USA (again a fast growing market for Italy) and Germany, especially for the art cities. Travel Mall gives the possibility of the online reservation of hotels in all Italian art cities, you can book hotels in Rome, in Florence, in Venice, in Bologna, in Milan, in Siena and many more. Another growing niche on the Italian market is the “fly & cruise” that for the year 2007 counts on almost 7 million passengers, mostly coming from overseas, arriving and departing from the Italian ports with the major cruise lines. As said, good news for Italy from Germany, where the Bundesbank calculates that almost 5 billion Euros have been spent in Italy by German tourists. The Russian market counts a growing trend of more than 38%, while France market is at a +7%.
The National Geographic has assigned to the Natural Park of Cinque Terre the 13th place among the sites of Unesco in the world. This Park is unique not only for the 
nature but also because the locals worked together to protect the area of the park; among the initiatives we count the use of biological food in restaurants and hotels, local busses running with natural gas and the protected marine area. Travel Mall has choosen a hotel for you in the vicinity of the park and the hotel in Santa Marghrita Ligure can be booked here.
One of the most important Italian art cities is Naples, in a recent congress the Major of the city confirmed that the potentiality of the tourist growth of the city are enormous; with the key attractions of the city (the beauty of the area and the huge artistic heritage), combined with the will of the citizens and the local institutions the result will be a development of the tourism in the city. Travel Mall offers you the possibility to book your hotel in Naples with a choice among various possible budget.
In the last few years more and more low cost flights become available for European budget travellers that would like to come to Rome and visit the city. In the meantime online hotel booking engines like travel-mall.net offers to costumers the best hotels rates on the market.
A comprehensive list of the low cost flights it’s impossible in few words, but we can say that there are some based in the western Europe like Ryanair, Easyjet, Air Berlin, Germanwings and some others, that in the last couple of years became more popular, that are based in the eastern countries like Centralwings, Skyeurope, Wizzair.
Browsing within their websites to find the best offer is a popular “sport” among the budget travellers, especially in low season when the hotels’ rates too are really convenient. In the Rome Hotels page of Travel Mall you can find a detailed list of hotels for all kind of travellers with a wide choice of 3 and 2 stars hotels that can be booked at the best rates. It is also possible to book regular city sightseeings of Rome with the most popular itineraries and in the major languages.
As these airlines usually touch more than one Italian city, it’s also possible to create city packages with low costs flights, arriving and departing from different places, that’s why on Travel Mall you find the webpage Tailor Made city packages where you can customize your request of hotels and services choosing within the website offer.
With this post we would like to give you a suggestion of itinerary for your next visit in Italy, especially if it’s your first time in our wonderful country. We call it “Rome, Florence & Venice city package” and this is an example of program:
Day 1: Arrival in Rome and transfer on your own at the hotel. Rest of the day at leisure to relax. Overnight at your hotel.
Day 2: Continental breakfast at the hotel.At 09:00am enjoy a half day regular 
panoramic tour of Rome through Trevi Fountain, Pantheon, Navona Square and St Peter’s Basilica. Afternoon will be free for shopping or to visit on your own the other sights of the town. Overnight at your hotel.
Day 3: Continental breakfast at the hotel. In the morning transfer by private car from the hotel to Termini rail station to catch a second class train to Florence. Arrival in Florence and transfer by private car to your hotel. Balance of the day at leisure. Overnight at your hotel.
Day 4: Continental breakfast at the hotel. At 09:00am enjoy a half day regular guided tour of Florence featuring the Cathedral, Giotto Bell Tower, the Baptistery and Pitti Palace. Balance the day at leisure. Overnight at your hotel.
Day 5: Continental breakfast at the hotel. In the morning transfer by private car from the hotel to S. Maria Novella rail station to catch a second class train to Venice. Arrival in Venice and transfer by private watertaxi to your hotel. Balance of the day at leisure. Overnight at your hotel.
Day 6: Continental breakfast at the hotel. At 09:00am enjoy a half day regular guided tour of Venice featuring St. Mark’s Cathedral, Doge’s Palace, Bridge of Sighs. Balance of the day at leisure. Overnight at your hotel
Day 7: Continental breakfast at the hotel. Departure from the hotel and transfer on your own to the airport/rail station.
These itineraries are completely customizable following your needs, so……welcome in Italy !
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We hope you will stay with us next year too!!
Welcome in our blog, a new voice for tourism in Italy. In this post we would like to let you know how private companies and government bodies are working really hard to improve the tourist offer in Italy. This week we begin to write about Rome that, in an important meeting on tourism, was shown as a model to follow all over Italy.
The Roman secret, was said, is to combine tourism, cultural heritage and events, trying also to threw out 
innovative ideas; this is the only way to follow for a true new success of Italian tourism. A first confirmation of this came few days ago from the rating company “Standard & Poors” that assigned an “A+” to the economy budget of the city of Rome consolidating the trend of the last years. Also the overall reservations in the hotels of Rome confirm this new trend.
In the most part of Italy yards connected to tourism are working really hard. In the Liguria region, where Genoa & Santa Margherita Ligure are located and where tourism has now a positive trend since many years, there are projects for “sea railways” in order to use the sea as a tourist and public transportation mean. The Emilia Romagna region, with the famous cities and towns of Bologna and Parma, among the others, is investing a lot of money in the airports. The 
Abruzzo region is working hard in view of the Mediterranean Games of 2009. As Florence has the ambition to become part of the 250 “provincial capital” of the world, their public managers are studying special promotions of cultural events and they are projecting a new event to set up during the low season. Naples, after the “restyling” of last years, is focusing on safety along 7 tourist itineraries and all hotels in Naples are ready to pamper their guests.
Welcome to your new Travel Blog dedicated to Italy. In these pages you will find updated information
