Travel Freak

There is a crisis, but this crisis has not even arrived in the area of e-commerce - tourism, compared to last year where there has been a growth of 28%, at least this is what emerges from the report, “The B2B e-commerce Italy: a growing challenge that the crisis “, produced by Netcomm, the consortium of Italian electronic commerce, and the School of Management of the Politecnico di Milano In detail, if we take into account the business generated on the Web, 56% of turnover within the area of tourism, worth about 3 billion euros and a half.

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Last Saturday, a spokesman for Ryanair, announced that it will soon be possible to cross the Atlantic with flights low cost airline of Ireland. The tickets, airport taxes excluded, would be offered for sale starting at 10 euros a ticket! E ‘This is the strategy put in by Ryan to combat the economic crisis and passengers that touches all airlines attack the market by investing more than the competition. These flights, all made with the new Boeing jet, should be the basis of Stansted airports in London and Dublin and to head for New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Boston. How is it possible to offer flights at prices so low? It is to know who buys these tickets, buy only the passage bridge, and everything else (drinks and meals included) would be extra.

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From next November 1, Trenitalia will implement a series of innovations that affect subscriptions for Eurostar and Intercity city. For all those who have a subscription Intercity there will be a price increase that will invest how many of you will want to travel on a train class.

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It should not be very peaceful situation in the Russian city of St Petersburg, at least for the safety of tourists. According to the newspaper Novie Izvestia, the Commission on Security and public order would have decided to give tourists visiting the former capital of Czar of special bracelets satellite, from the spring of 2009. A sort of alarm system that would send a request to the police for help from any area of the city and to be found rescue and quickly.

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The newspaper Lecceprima announced that the Region of Puglia continues in building a culture of hospitality, without barriers in the territory. Last action is that of the protocol signed last October 11 to charge from Lecce and the Association Challenge (Union Italian families different skills) to promote tourism in Salento. On the portal’s official tourism in the Puglia region appears, the menu at the bottom right, the voice Puglia accessible.

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