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🏖 Lombardia, Veneto, and Provincia autonoma di Trento launch 'Regione Garda' for joint tourism promotion in a triennial plan for 2024-2027, aiming to boost the competitiveness of Lago di Garda as a travel destination. According to Lombardia's Tourism Assessor, Barbara Mazzali, provisional data from January-July 2024 shows 1.5 million arrivals, 63% foreign, 36.35% Italian, and over 6 million overnight stays, a 12.06% increase from the same period in 2023.

📣 Ryanair to temporarily shut down its website from 19:00 on Wednesday, October 16 to 03:00 on Thursday, October 17. The maintenance-related outage affects both desktop and mobile platforms. Passengers must check in online before the shutdown or face a €60 fee for airport check-in and boarding pass printing.

🌊 Gnv sales for Summer 2025 open on October 14. In Sardinia, Gnv will operate four ships with two daily departures on Genoa-Olbia and Genoa-Torres routes, and daily departures between Civitavecchia-Olbia. In Sicily, Gnv offers daily links from Palermo to Genoa and Naples, Civitavecchia-Palermo, Civitavecchia-Termini Imerese, and Naples-Termini Imerese. Gnv also operates six lines to/from Italy in Spain, the Balearics, Morocco, France, Tunisia, and a daily Bari-Durazzo line to Albania.

🚢 The "Viaggio Italiano" project, led by Regione Marche, aims to promote active vacations and nautical tourism in Italy, presenting 17 interregional nautical routes inspired by historical and commercial pathways, culminating in around 30 tourist itineraries. A conference will be held on October 9 at TTG Travel Experience, featuring key figures such as Tourism Minister Daniela Santanchè and Luca Oriani as moderator. Further details on itineraries will be disclosed on October 10 with participants like Barbara Casagrande and Giuseppe Nicotra. This initiative is part of a broader strategy involving regions like Emilia-Romagna, Umbria, and Abruzzo, each focusing on themes like "villages," "slow tourism," "active tourism," and "nature and parks." Partner regions Tuscany, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, and Campania contribute to enogastronomy, golf, and underwater archaeological tourism, respectively.