tourism

So many questions and so few answers while we wait for a vaccine. In NYC many hotels are already closed or are attempting to survive with empty rooms. A leading expert in Italian tourism to the US paints a bleak...

One of the first cities in Italy to serve coffee and bring it to prominence, for the past few centuries Venice, and in particular Piazza San Marco, has been like a magnet, drawing flocks of celebrities who wished to pay...

It’s the land of the trulli, taranta, sun, sea, and uncontaminated nature; plus an enviable gastronomic tradition. All this has been crowned by American tourists as the new queen of Italian destinations. Combining tradition and modernity, Puglia is also emerging...

If you have never seen Venice and wish to do so, you better hurry because according to experts, it is fast being destroyed by tourism. Not only by the 80,000 tourists per day that choke its streets and make the...

The idea that as a tourist I am able to walk into a small village in Africa and get the locals to do what I want them to do by offering money is a dangerous stepping stone.  If history has...

In the spotlight after Pope Francis' visit, Bari is not only southern Italy’s most important commercial center after Naples: it is getting more press and tourists thanks to its incredible and thousand-year-old history, its culture, its art, and its way...

A recent marketing study conducted by MySmark, a company specializing in interactive and personalised experiences, opens exciting new opportunities in the tourism space, with regards to the importance of the personality traits a traveler shares with a destination. The personality of a brand...

Stephanie Malia Hom, author of The Beautiful Country. Tourism and the Impossible State of Destination Italy (University of Toronto Press, 2015), discusses how her research on Italy as a powerful touristic imaginary can help us to better understand the national...

Peaks of magic colors, towns full of Tyrolean flavor, ski slopes among the best in Europe and a rich local cuisine. Bressanone, Bolzano, Merano, San Martino di Castrozza and Madonna di Campiglio are ideal destinations both for those who love...