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Travel Before, Vitolo: “Riflettori puntati sulla Costiera Amalfitana”

🏖️ Travel Before, based in Salerno, is set to promote the Amalfi Coast and Campania at Fitur 2025. CEO Giancarlo Vitolo aims to showcase the area's tourism offerings to a global audience and create new international collaborations. The focus is on personalized packages, cultural itineraries, and gastronomic experiences, targeting Spanish-speaking markets and leveraging the Jubilee for religious tourism, promoting sustainable and high-quality tourism in Italy.
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Cunard, Queen Anne debutta in Nord America

🏡 British luxury liner Queen Anne, operated by Cunard, docks in New York marking its North American market debut during its inaugural world voyage. The ship accommodates up to 3,000 passengers and houses over 4,300 artworks. Cunard President Katie McAlister remarks the event as a historic milestone, heralding a new era of luxury cruising and celebrating nearly two centuries of maritime excellence.
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Annunciate le finaliste per ‘Capitale Italiana della Cultura 2027’

????️ 10 finaliste cities for 'Capitale Italiana della Cultura 2027' announced, including Alberobello, Aliano, Brindisi, Gallipoli, La Spezia, Pompei, Pordenone, Reggio Calabria, Sant’Andrea di Conza, and Savona. Selection showcases a strong southern presence with three cities from Puglia and a maritime theme, complemented by three northern towns. Jury led by Davide Maria Desario picked finalists from 17 candidates. The winning city, to be declared by March 28, will receive a €1 million fund for cultural and innovative project initiatives as per the Ministry of Culture.
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Madrid nuova capitale del turismo internazionale

🏖️ Madrid received 11.2 million visitors in 2024, with 56% being international. The city aims to increase international arrivals to 60% in 2025. Last year's visitor expenditure reached €16.14 billion, with a targeted increase to €17 billion. Tourist counts grew by 5.5% and overnight stays by 4.7%, exceeding 23 million. Notably, visitors from the U.S., Italy, France, U.K., Mexico, Germany, and Portugal led, with Chinese tourists surging by 78.77%. Madrid's 2025 strategic focus includes off-season, decentralization, tourism innovation, and experiential tourism, under the '365 Days of Madrid' initiative. The 'Madrid re-imagined' project will create a digital ecosystem to personalize visitor experiences using AI.
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Star Clippers in rotta dal Mediterraneo ai Caraibi

🏖️ Star Clippers is set for summer in the Mediterranean and offers early booking for the Caribbean and Costa Rica for winter 2025-2026. The four-masted Star Clipper will depart from the new home port of Grenada in January 2026, with new 10 and 11-night itineraries including destinations like Charlottesville (Tobago), Castara Bay (Tobago), and others. The summer 2026 catalog features new Mediterranean stops in Italy's Marche, Puglia, and Calabria, plus new ports like Sebenico (Croatia) and in Greece. Long-haul bookings are growing, especially with early booking discounts of up to 20% for reservations made by April 30, 2025. Barbados will see 16 departures between December 2025 and March 2026.
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Cerved: i fatturati delle imprese del turismo avranno una crescita significativa

📈 Italian companies are expected to see real revenue growth of +1.2% in 2025 and +1.4% in 2026, recovering from a decline of -0.9% in 2024. The services and tourism sectors are projected to be high-performing, with info and communication increasing by +12.95%, tourism and catering by +9.17%, and renewables installations by a staggering +139.12% from 2023 to 2026. However, geopolitical uncertainty, US tariffs, monetary policy, and international tensions could impact this positive trend.
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Eurostat: 3 miliardi di presenze in UE nel 2024

🏖️ Eurostat reported 2.99 billion tourist overnight stays in the European Union for 2024, a 2% increase (53.4 million more) over the previous year. Growth driven by international guests (+58.7 million), despite a slight drop in domestic stays (-5.3 million). Accommodation-wise, hotels and similar establishments accounted for 1.9 billion stays (63%), followed by holiday homes with 711 million (24%) and campsites with 396 million (13%). Luxembourg (+22%), Malta (+13%), and Latvia (+7%) saw the highest rises in 2024, while France and Belgium experienced slight decreases (-1% each), and numbers remained stable in Sweden, Finland, and Italy.
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Cirium: quasi 6 miliardi i posti passeggeri sui voli di linea nel 2024

✈️ Aviation had a historic year in 2024, offering a record 5.85 billion passenger seats globally, surpassing the previous high of 5.72 billion in 2019. Despite a 2% increase in seat capacity, the total number of scheduled flights in 2024 was 36.4 million, 5% below 2019 levels, indicating a shift towards larger aircraft. American Airlines led in passenger seats, followed by Delta, United, Southwest, and Ryanair as the top non-US operator. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport remained the busiest with 62.7 million seats, followed by Dubai International with 59.7 million. The Seoul Gimpo-Jeju route was the busiest, with over 15 million seats annually.
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