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 Catania gets a facelift
A brand new terminal, plans for increasing infrastructures and some urban restyling are at the heart of Catania’s plans to attract more tourists. Sicily’s second largest city is a perfect base camp for trying out sports on Etna’s upper slopes. Hotels are expanding their range of facilities and services, with focus on spas and conference venues. |
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 Doors open at Molino Stucky Hilton Venice – now the Lagoon’s largest conference hotel
This large hotel, located on the Giudecca island exactly opposite St Mark’s, will be operational from 1 June. The venue has emerged from the conversion of a 19th-century flour mill. |
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 Perugia inaugurates the first jazz hotel
Jazz city Perugia now hosts the Hotel Giò Jazz Area, a place where music can be heard, watched and experienced in all its nuances. |
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Sicily’s first Hilton up and running
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The recently-inaugurated hotel is at Marina di Portorosa, right on the shore of northeast Sicily and right opposite the Aeolian Islands. |
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The 5-star Baia dei Faraglioni Beach Resort reopens on the green Gargano peninsula, in Apulia
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The fully refurbished hotel is one of the most exclusive in the area, set against a backdrop of a splendid bay in the heart of the Monte Barone Park. |
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 Sicily’s Atahotel Naxos Beach Resort gets wi-fi enhancement for its new conference centre
Extended to 1,600sqm, it includes a modular auditorium to seat 780; seven meeting rooms seating from 20 to 120; two press rooms seating from 20 to 50. |
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Hotel Valgrande: combining business with wellness
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The Hotel Valgrande opened recently in the heart of Valgrande National Park, just a smattering of kilometres from Lake Maggiore. |
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Sardinian DMC Turmo Travel offers the Olbia Costa Smeralda airport as an events venue
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Thanks to an agreement with GEASAR, the company that manages the airport, the agency is using its flexible, customizable spaces. |
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HISTORIC HOTELS AND VENUES |
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 The Park Hotel Villa Grazioli gets “teched up”
The hotel, located in a 1500s stately home just outside of Rome, has now added wi-fi to all its areas, at the same time valorizing its artworks. |
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 Il Melograno hotel has a brand new spa with organic bistrot
The Apulian 5-star has just opened Orlane’s first beauty spa in Italy, also offering a health food menu. |
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CATERING & BANQUETING FIRMS |
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 Il Principe in pursuit of atmosphere, introducing meditation on Vesuvius
This catering and banqueting company specialising in the recovery of ancient Roman recipes has developed further events with a historical flavour. |
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 The Four Points Hotel Sheraton Roma West offers a new weekend rate
The 4-star is launching a competitive rate for Friday-Sunday meetings bookings. The idea targets international guests who can then dedicate a little more time to visiting the Eternal City. |
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 Sailing Challenge weekend with regatta off the Tuscan coast
Sailing Challenge, a company specialising in the organization of sailing events, has a weekend offer for all of September and October 2007: a sailing regatta and a stay at Viareggio’s Grand Hotel Principe di Piemonte, at a rate of EUR 522 per person (minimum 60 participants). |
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Half-price conference rooms in Italy’s Sol Meliá hotels
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Up to 31 July the Spanish chain is offering 50% off conference room rates for meetings held in its five Italian hotels located in Sardinia, Rome, Milan and Verona. |
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