Italy has declared 2024 the year of ‘back to your roots’ tourism. By that, they mean travel undertaken by Italian emigrants or descendants of Italians to visit the places where their ancestors lived.
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Each year, readers of Conde Nast Traveller vote in the Readers’ Choice Awards. In 2023, Italy has topped a number of the readers’ polls.
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Rome’s Colosseum visitor numbers for June, July and August rose by 16% over the same period in 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic the following year, the culture ministry said in a statement on Thursday.
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On 19th September, the World’s 50 Best Hotels list was revealed. Topping the list was the luxury Lake Como hotel, Passalacqua.
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Authorities have given their final approval for a trial period of charging tourists €5 a day to enter Venice. The Venice ticket system is planned to commence next spring.
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Venice Mayor Luigi Brugnaro said today the lagoon city would trial an entry fee for day trippers starting next year (2024). This is not the first time the city has said it will charge to reduce congestion.
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Once again tourists in Italy have shown a complete disregard the country’s cultural heritage. The Tourism Minister labels them vandal tourists.
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PM Giorgia Meloni heads to Albania to find out why Italians are giving Puglia the boot for the neighbouring country. She also picks up an unpaid restaurant bill.
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Italy’s proposed cap on air fares is in line with European Union norms and is not a breach of free-market rules Italy’s transport ministry said Wednesday. Some airlines have asked the European Commission to intervene in the matter.
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The government is set to clamp down on airlines’ “unfair” use of algorithms to set the price of flights. In recent months, there has been a soaring of flight prices, especially for services connecting the mainland to Sicily and Sardinia.
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