John Paul II's Beatification: full house

The beatification ceremony of of John Paul II scheduled the first of May 2011, will attract thousands of Italian and foreign tourists to the capital. Few weeks after the announcement, hotels, b&b and apartments in Rome have already registered a full house.

The Holy See has already said that the entrance to St. Peter's Square will be free and without reservation. So any forecast can be risky, however, there are those who foresee the arrival of one million pilgrims.

Because of the massive influx of tourists, due also to the presence of the concert in Piazza San Giovanni, tourists will go through a rise in prices from 100 to 300%. 

 

Good results for Italian Tourism in despite of economic crisis

Reports of tourist structures and tour operators for the 2009 summer season in the end show that Italian tourism has hold up well the effects of the global economic crisis. In spite of the collapse of incoming flows from overseas countries, mainly the U.S. and Japan,in Europe, italy has established itself as the selected destination for many tourists such as Germans, Austrians, French and Spanish with a significant decline regarding only the United Kingdom.
But if Italy can be satisfied with respect to the catastrophic initial estimate it's only thanks to Italian tourists, who have decided to remain in the Beautiful Country boycotting foreign destinations and limiting the damages related to the absence of large part of overseas tourism.
By surprise, the less "popular" regions such as Sicily and Apulia result the most favourite destinations to the detriment of the great tourist centers of northern Italy.
Good results also for Tuscany, famous for its landscape and its excellent wine production. Travelling in Tuscany making touring trips in contact with nature seems one of the most appreciated desires for the holidays of this year.

Wood techologies arrive in Iran market

Tuscany technologies for wood manufacturing will soon be present in Iran. According to surveys conducted in industries specialized in production of tools and woodworking, Iran is, at this stage of development of foreign markets, the area that offers greater reliability and better prospects for future increases in exports for the sector. A project of the consortium Tuscany Woodworking Technologies, which provides an investment amounting to 74,000 euros. A seminar, organized by the consortium of TWT, will be held in Teheran in the first half of 2009. The aim is to present Tuscany technologies of the sector and, consequently, carry out an actual penetration of the market to establish contacts for the increase in the volume of business and sales abroad by Tuscany companies.

The EU bandish the traditional incandescent bulbs

The experts of the Member States of EU have decided to banish the traditional incandescent bulbs throughout the EU by 2012. With a new generation of light bulbs, you can save energy and reduce by about 15 million tons per year emissions of C02. An average family that replaces incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent lamps will do an economy from 25 to 50 euros.
Australia was the first country to ban the traditional lamps (by 2010), the U.S. instead will follow only between 2012 and 2014 (in Italy, the Finance Act 2008 had already banned them by 2011).