{"id":6701,"date":"2014-05-20T10:27:13","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T10:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digitalmagics.com\/?p=6701"},"modified":"2015-02-24T11:18:38","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T11:18:38","slug":"confturismo-digital-magics-and-the-uvet-group-launch-the-tripitaly-it-project-for-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalmagics.stage.de.dol.it\/en\/blog\/2014\/05\/20\/confturismo-digital-magics-and-the-uvet-group-launch-the-tripitaly-it-project-for-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"CONFTURISMO, DIGITAL MAGICS AND THE UVET GROUP LAUNCH THE TRIPITALY.IT PROJECT FOR TOURISM"},"content":{"rendered":"

CONFTURISMO, DIGITAL MAGICS AND THE UVET GROUP \u00c2\u00a0LAUNCH THE TRIPITALY.IT PROJECT FOR TOURISM<\/strong><\/p>\n

A digital\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u02dchub\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 is opened to promote and support Italian firms operating in the incoming tourism sector, and created with the contribution of the sector’s innovative Italian startups<\/em><\/p>\n

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Milano, 20 May 2014 – <\/strong>The Italian Conference on Tourism<\/em><\/strong> which took place this morning in Rome was attended by Carlo Sangalli, the President of Confcommercio (General Federation of Italian Commerce, Tourism, Services and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises), Francesca Barracciu, Under Secretary at the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Activities and Tourism and Piero Galli, Director General\u00c2\u00a0of\u00c2\u00a0Event\u00c2\u00a0Expo 2015. During the conference they heard an announcement from Digital Magics<\/strong>, Certified Incubator of innovative startups listed on the Italy’s AIM stock market (symbol DM), the Uvet Group<\/strong>, the leading distributor in Italy\u00c2\u00a0since 1950 for the supply of services and solutions in leisure trips, business travel, MICE (Meetings, Incentive, Congresses and Events) and pharmaceuticals and Confturismo<\/strong>, the organisation of reference of\u00c2\u00a0Confcommercio-Business for Italy for the tourism sector, concerning an agreement to develop the Tripitaly.it project, the first open portal for incoming foreign tourism in Italy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This innovate platform will gather together information, services <\/strong>and different offers <\/strong>in one single hub<\/em>, <\/strong>offering tourists arriving from abroad a single\u00c2\u00a0point of reference and that will allow tourists a quick and simple way of planning and purchasing their customised and made-to-measure\u00c2\u00a0holiday package. The website will be backed up by a mobile application that will accompany foreign tourists during their stay in Italy.<\/p>\n

Tripitaly.it represents a new opportunity\u00c2\u00a0for all those small and medium-sized enterprises that are members of Confturismo – the General Federation of Italian Tourism (i.e. hotels, public establishments, travel agencies, tour operators, incentive services, camping sites, villages and\u00c2\u00a0tourist residences and hotels, bed & breakfasts, hostels, bathing establishments, nightclubs, holiday\u00c2\u00a0marinas, etc…) to expand and sustain their businesses thanks to innovative digital technology<\/strong> and will provide an effective and efficient\u00c2\u00a0technological platform for promoting themselves and\u00c2\u00a0improving their own\u00c2\u00a0relationships with their customers as well as their levels of\u00c2\u00a0satisfaction.<\/p>\n

The Tripitaly.it platform,\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u2039\u00e2\u20ac\u2039created by Digital Magics with the support of the best innovative startups dedicated to Italian tourism -\u00c2\u00a0which offer value-added and additional services – will suggest, on a\u00c2\u00a0day-to-day and step-by-step basis, cultural activities and attractions to tourists\u00c2\u00a0that are well worth a visit. It will automatically recommend, for every city: the nearby towns or places that are worth seeing; pointing out the distances, the routes and the tours; the best restaurants; the\u00c2\u00a0museums to visit, offering the possibility of booking;\u00c2\u00a0wine and food specialities; local events – as well as offering the possibiity of booking airline, rail or coach tickets and additional services such as car rental with driver or bicycles for the more athletic\u00c2\u00a0– to provide a unique vacation experience.<\/p>\n

Luca Patan\u00c3\u00a8, Chairman of both Confturismo and UVET<\/strong> said: “I believe very much in the\u00c2\u00a0support that technology provides in promoting the development and innovation of our sector which can, more than in any other and thanks to the Internet, seize new business opportunities and a range of services offering high added value to its customers. Consumers have demonstrated how much they value\u00c2\u00a0the Internet, in particular for the opportunities it offers them to organise\u00c2\u00a0their own trips independently. The digital age\u00c2\u00a0does not represent a threat to our industry, but rather\u00c2\u00a0a really interesting and potential source of new income for all Confcommercio member businesses. The advantage of Tripitaly.it is precisely that of bringing everything that Italian tourism has to offer into one single access point and enhancing it from every aspect. Tripitaly.it will be fully operational and and up and\u00c2\u00a0running in time to coincide with\u00c2\u00a0Expo 2015, which I think will be the best opportunity for Confturismo and its members to grow.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Enrico Gasperini, Founder and Chairman of Digital Magics <\/strong>said: “We believe that when it comes to\u00c2\u00a0digital technology, enough has still not\u00c2\u00a0been done in the area of what\u00c2\u00a0the Italian tourism sector\u00c2\u00a0has to offer the foreign market. It is also a question of our country’s\u00c2\u00a0competitiveness when compared to the rest of Europe, and countries\u00c2\u00a0such as Spain or France, which are much further\u00c2\u00a0ahead when it comes to the Internet and e-commerce. The Tripitaly.it\u00c2\u00a0platform will be developed taking into account the\u00c2\u00a0technological project called E015, that was created to offer\u00c2\u00a0a powerful boost in terms of innovation and openness to all those interested in Expo 2015, which represents a one-off opportunity for all small and medium-sized Italian enterprises operating in the tourism sector. “<\/em><\/p>\n

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Confturismo – www.confturismo.it<\/span> <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

On June 6\u00c2\u00a0CONFTURISMO created new Articles of Association for itself\u00c2\u00a0and a new operational setup for the total relaunch of its work. The renovated CONFTURISMO – a\u00c2\u00a0unified grouping of national organisations representing businesses and professions in tourism that are members of\u00c2\u00a0Confcommercio – is the organisational structure for coordinating the tourism sector promoted by the Confederation. The synergies with the Confcommercio system\u00c2\u00a0– at both national and regional levels, through the regional agencies of\u00c2\u00a0CONFTURISMO – the strategic importance of which is reaffirmed – are enhanced. This setup, combined with the strengthened management\u00c2\u00a0role entrusted to the founding\u00c2\u00a0Federations – FAITA-Federcamping (Federation of Italian Open-Air Tourist Establishment Associations), FEDERALBERGHI (Federation of Italian Hotels and Tourism Associations), FIAVET (Italian Federation of Travel and Tourism Businesses), FIPE (Italian Federation of Public Establishments), Rescasa (Italian Federation of Apartment and Residential Holiday Establishments), ANBBA (National Association of B&Bs & Rented Room Establishments) and Federviaggio (Federation of Organised Tourism) – provides CONFTURISMO with even more expert\u00c2\u00a0tools for pursuing the goals\u00c2\u00a0that have been assigned to it. These include the promotion and safeguarding of the sector\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s interests as well as the enhancement of\u00c2\u00a0its image. What is more\u00c2\u00a0CONFTURISMO, in confirming itself as an organisation at a confederation level that is more widely\u00c2\u00a0representative of the sector, offers itself as a privileged interlocutor with the institutions for the study and development of new policies for the development of tourism in Italy.<\/em><\/p>\n

Uvet Group – www.uvet.com<\/span> <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Uvet Group\u00c2\u00a0is a distribution outlet for tourism with a turnover of \u00e2\u201a\u00ac2.2 billion that has been operating in Italy since 1950. The group is made up of the following companies: <\/em><\/p>\n