Italy

Gone are Lufthansa and its partner MSC. The future of ITA Airways lies with Air France KLM and the offer made alongside Certares and Delta. The Italian Ministry of the Economy and Finance made it official on August 31: "following the procedure governed by the decree of the Prime Minister, ITA Airways...

In recent days, Fiumicino airport has taken another step towards multimodality, and in the process has taken on a new dimension in the Italian mobility market. Trenitalia has launched three new Frecciarossa connections to the Roman hub. The railway company now links Fuimicino to two Neapolitan stations - Napoli Centrale and...

The strike in Italy on 17 July is expected to affect employees of three low-cost airlines: easyJet, Volotea and Ryanair. Air traffic controllers are also affected by the strike, which was initially scheduled to last 24 hours but has now been reduced to four hours. [link-block prefix="Also worth reading:" post="127507"]...

Just a few days after it was announced that the legendary Danieli would be joining Four Seasons from 2025, another legendary hotel in the Serenissima, the Bauer, is also set to change hands. The Rosewood group, which owns the Crillon in Paris among other hotels, has reached an agreement with its owner,...

The big names in the hotel industry like to play musical chairs. While a JW Marriott hotel recently opened in Sao Paulo within the walls of a former Four Seasons, the legendary Danieli hotel in Venice is preparing to go the other way. Now part of another of the Marriott group's brands, the Luxury Collection, the Danieli will be...

A pioneer in the lifestyle movement that is taking a leading role in the global hotel industry, the W brand is stepping up its expansion in Europe. Following the opening of a hotel in Rome at the end of last year, housed in two nineteenth-century palaces near the Spanish Steps that have been given a contemporary makeover, Marriott International has announced the...

What does France mean to ITA Airways? Pierfrancesco Carino - The French market is very strategic for ITA Airways. It's the company's biggest market in Europe. So we came here to share ITA Airways' strategy in France, with a very comprehensive product on departure from Paris and Nice to Rome and...

As the Queen of England celebrates her platinum jubilee in a few weeks' time, one of the former jewels in the British crown, the ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2, is preparing to open a new chapter in her history. Retired from cruising in 2008 and moored since then in Dubai's Rashid Port, the prestigious ship has been...

Hilton's Tapestry Collection continues to expand in Europe. After Paris, Madrid and Porto, the brand of upmarket lifestyle hotels is adding another major destination to its offering: Venice. Or, to be more precise, Mestre, on the other side of the lagoon, for a hotel designed for both...

Bologna's tourism industry has flourished in the shadow of a deep-rooted certainty among many Italians and Europeans. That of being a city totally focused on business. This is not untrue. With a population of 390,000, Bologna is one of Italy's major economic centres, with a dense network of companies in the agri-foodstuffs, electronics,...

ITA Airways' new 'Piazza di Spagna' lounge in Terminal E at Rome's Fiumicino airport was the setting for the presentation of its new frequent flyer programme. Volare was launched last October, but it is only now that it is taking on its full dimension, with the integration of new partners and the expansion of the range of...

For the past fortnight or so, the Italian press has been buzzing with rumours about a future partner for Italy's national airline ITA. ITA, which rose from the ashes of the former Alitalia, took off in October. But it knows from the outset that it has little chance of surviving on its own in a domestic and European market...

On Tuesday, Italy extended its state of health emergency until March 2022. It has therefore tightened travel restrictions for all travellers. The measure also applies to citizens travelling from other European Union countries. EU travellers to Italy are now required to undergo a screening test for the coronavirus before travelling...

ITA has just taken off, with ambitions to become the benchmark airline on the Italian peninsula. It is starting its activity with a limited network and a compact fleet compared to what Alitalia was before the pandemic. For its debut, ITA serves 44 destinations on 59 routes, including the...

In full expansion, the voco brand is expected in Seoul in the second quarter of 2022, after having conquered Paris, Singapore and, more recently, Milan. To make its entry into the South Korean market, the IHG Group's contemporary brand will be setting up in the heart of the capital, in the Gangnam business district, also known for its restaurants...

And that's three! After Verona and Treviso in the Veneto region, Ryanair has just announced that it is opening a new base at Venice-Marco Polo airport, the nearest hub to the City of the Doges. The carrier will inaugurate this base for the 2022 summer season with three Boeing 737MAX aircraft. This means the launch of 18 air routes....

Italian carrier ITA is in the starting-block, with its first flights scheduled for 15 October. And even before it takes off, the company has already confirmed an initial option to lease and acquire new aircraft. ITA has signed a memorandum of understanding with Airbus for 28 aircraft and with Airbus for...

Thello made no secret of its desire to compete with SNCF on its home turf, particularly on the Paris-Lyon-Milan high-speed line. The ambitions of the company, a subsidiary of the Italian national group Trenitalia, were unveiled back in 2018. A launch was initially expected in the summer of 2020, then postponed due to the economic crisis...

Ciao Alitalia! On August 18, the Italian civil aviation authority ENAC officially gave the green light to ITA (Italia Trasporto Aereo) to operate airlines and sell tickets. ENAC has granted an air operator's certificate to the new entity, which replaces Alitalia. Alitalia has also announced that it will stop selling...

There is a paradox in Venice. The city is a marvellous destination for incentive trips or small prestige conferences. Its superb 18th-century palaces, prestigious hotels - Bauer, Cipriani, Danieli or Palazzo Gritti, to name but a few - and the romantic atmosphere of the historic city along its canals make it...