Innovazione

🌍 Travel Friends debuts at TTG Travel Experience 2025 in Rimini, Italy, offering a fast and intuitive B2B platform for travel agencies. Managing 1,600 groups yearly, they facilitate travel for 45,000-47,000 travelers with an average group size of 30. Currently contracting 2,000 hotels, they aim for 5-6,000 by 2026. The platform offers over 1,000 international itineraries, 2.5 million accommodations, and collaborates with 200 car rental partners, integrating flights, cruises, and more.

✈️ Sekurest has partnered with Partner Solution, creators of SferaNET, to streamline financial and operational management for Italian travel agencies and tour operators. The collaboration integrates Sekurest's payment ecosystem into SferaNET, providing a unified interface for travel processes, collections, and payments. Carlo Schiavon, co-founder and CEO of Sekurest, highlights this as a pivotal move to offer simple, secure, and scalable solutions for organized tourism challenges.

☕ From October 17-21, Caffè Toraldo showcases at Host Milano, Rho Fiera, featuring an interactive stand. Specialty coffee highlights include the new Roast Master line, with a 250g Espresso Blend from Ethiopia, Brazil, and Guatemala. Masterclasses by Gianni Cocco occur on October 17 and 19, exploring coffee and cacao. New domestic solutions debut: "La Cremosa" machine in three colors, and "Dolce e Cremosa" blend in various formats. Visit their stand at Pavilion 12, Stand A04-A08, C03-C07.

🏨 Smartness, an Italian startup, showcases "The Hospitality Time Machine" at TTG, highlighting hospitality's evolution. CEO Luca Rodella notes the shift from traditional methods like spreadsheets to AI-driven strategies. Only 1.3% of European accommodations use AI or machine learning, per Eurostat. The immersive installation urges hoteliers to recognize industry changes and embrace AI for pricing and management. The TTG theme, "Awake to a New Era," aligns with Smartness's goal of guiding the hospitality sector into a tech-forward future.

🛩 Ryanair, October 2025, Milan: CEO Eddie Wilson dismisses EU intermodal transport vision, emphasizing cost over sustainability. Ryanair prioritizes fleet renewal, rated A in the CDP Climate Change Program, over transport partnerships. Plans in Italy include a $4 billion investment for 40 new aircraft and expanding the network to 250 routes, aiming for 20 million additional passengers, contingent on the abolition of municipal taxes at operational airports.

📅 InOut Rimini 2025 features Fas Italia presenting innovative hospitality solutions at Hall D1 Stand 005. Highlights include a professional Waffle Station kit for breakfast buffets and modular magnetic dispensers for flexibility. Hotel room accessories debut in eco-friendly bioplastic, emphasizing sustainability. A new 140+ page catalog offers diverse furnishing ideas for modernizing hotel rooms. These advancements aim to enhance guest experiences and streamline operations for hoteliers.

☕ Caffè Vergnano will launch its holistic and functional coffee initiative by the end of October 2025, starting in 20 select caffetterias across Italy. The project introduces coffee enriched with B vitamins and plant extracts, offering three booster options: "Memoria" for cognitive support, "Difesa" for immunity, and "Energia" for mood. Partnering with DrGaudie and the University of Torino, this innovation aligns with the global functional coffee market projected to grow to $7.71 billion by 2030.

💻 Zucchetti, a leading Italian software company, is showcasing its innovations at the TTG Travel Experience 2025 in Rimini from October 8-10. Key offerings include ZPAY, a fintech service for integrated digital payments, and ZMice, a platform for managing event spaces. The event highlights technology's role in enhancing hospitality operations, with solutions for hotels and tourism, including cloud PMS and digital marketing. Zucchetti ensures secure, compliant transactions, aligning with PSD2 and GDPR standards.

🚪 CISA eSIGNO enhances hospitality by integrating electronic locks, CISA Smart Access app, and CISA AERO cloud for seamless access management. This smart lock system is modular, scalable, and battery-powered (lasting up to six years), fitting existing doors without cabling. It allows for real-time digital credential management, offering contactless guest experiences. Wall readers manage common area access. Benefits include reduced operational complexity, increased security, and improved guest interaction through a smartphone as room key.

🏨 In 2023, in Monastero, Spain, the 19th-century Hotel La Dehesa de Don Pedro won the Ruralka and Fitur awards for excellence in rural hospitality and tourism. The five-star hotel prioritizes sustainability, integrating the Airzone system for energy efficiency, managing air conditioning and radiant floor heating from a single thermostat. With 15 rooms, it reduces energy waste and enables remote control via the Airzone Cloud app, ensuring optimal climate management.