Italy swept the boards in a recent Bounce survey of Europe’s ten most cultural cities, taking three of the top five places. First past the post was Venice, topping the ten European cities with an overall cultural score of 8.77/10. Florence took fourth place and Milan fifth, with Rome coming…

What are travellers looking for in Italy? More wine and food, and more culture. And tourism is thriving, driven mainly by international demand. Setting aside for a moment today’s energy crisis and yesterday’s pandemic, the picture of the tourism industry becomes clearer, and the future, if possible, looks even rosier.…

The European Commission is preparing a blow for travel agencies and operators. A huge blow. The Commission, incongruously taking up the cudgel in defense of consumers, has proposed abolishing the down payment customers leave with travel agencies and operators. Plainly the men in Brussels and Strasbourg have no idea what…

Modern aircraft are more efficient and fly faster than they did 20 years ago, right? Well yes, but also no. Because to fly from London to New York now takes eight hours when it took only seven in 1997, and from Dublin to London takes 90 minutes against the 60…

It’s blue all the way, from the heart of Milan to the capitals of Europe. How? On the new metro line, known as the Blue Line which connects the city centre with Linate airport and the M4. With the completion of the first section from Linate, Milan’s city airport, to…

Planning and sustainability. The post-Covid recovery sees tourism in Italy and around the world facing the same old challenges. But today they need new answers for new times that, most importantly, reply to the needs of destinations and markets. Starting with the institutions which “can no longer reason with a…

Not all disabilities are obvious. Health problems like autism, speech and sight impairments, diabetes and chronic pain can all be invisible. Many people with difficulties like these wear a green lanyard with a sunflower symbol which is the globally recognized sign for invisible disabilities and a simple and elegant way…

Italian politics really don’t understand tourism. There’s no two ways about it. The obscure detachment between politics and tourism is marked by decades of misunderstandings, underestimations, unjustified absences and troubled relationships. In short, it has been wrong right from the start. And, like all relationships that start out on the…