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🏆 Smartbox launched new packages for couples and families for Carnival, offering over 14,000 experiences, including city and rural stays, dinners, wellness, and sporty activities. The 'Magiche emozioni per due' targets couples, while '2 giorni in famiglia' caters to 2 adults and 1-2 children with a night's stay and breakfast in 3 or 4-star agritourisms and hotels, focusing on Italian cities and European destinations like Granada and Nantes.

🚠 On February 10, at the BIT convention titled "Tourist Buses and Limited Traffic Zones: A Possible Coexistence (?)", a report revealed the increasing complexity and costliness of regulations for tourist buses in both large and small cities. These restrictions have hindered the development of collective road tourism, especially in cities like Rome, Florence, and Venice, where bus tourists paying triple compared to other transport modes due to a uniform accommodation tax. Federturismo Confindustria President, Marina Lalli, emphasized the need for a new approach to promote and regulate bus access to urban centers. A decree from the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport to standardize and cap ZTL (Limited Traffic Zone) tariffs and a single portal for ZTL rules and rates across Italian cities were suggested as solutions.