TRIESTE -- DFDS is ramping up with additional weekly round-trip routes on Nuremberg-Trieste railway connection line, officials say.

  BELFAST - It's not for no reason that one talks about the giant spirit of Ireland. It is an island full of myths and legends, strongly connected to nature and its powerful cultural heritage.

  Two percent of travellers from England test positive, according to Il messaggero.

  ROME - A survey that was released at the start of February revealed that only 22% of the 2000 non-hotel accommodation establishments thought that 2021 had got off to a better start than 2020.

 VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis Sunday lashed out at the 'hedonistic' few who fly away from their countries on vacation rather than staying to help those in need du

 ROME -- Tourism in Italy tumbled by a half on average in 2020 as a result of the Covid pandemic while foreign tourism to the peninsula crashed by 68 percent with

ROME — Italy banned all flights to and from the UK as of midnight Sunday after British authorities introduced measures to combat a new fast-spreading variant of Covid-19, health minister Roberto Sp

 PROCIDA – The sun-drenched island of Procida nestling in the bay of Naples has been shortlisted to be Italian capital of culture in 2022 together with nine towns

 ROME – Pope Francis has shown solidarity with tourism workers, whose industry has been paralyzed by COVID-19, Italian media reported on Monday.

 HELSINKI – The Finnish Government is proposing that, in the event of a cancellation of a travel package, travellers would receive compensation from the State for the fees paid to the tour operator

ROME - This week the United Nations Secretary-General launched the Policy Brief “COVID-19 and Transforming Tourism”, which UNWTO assumed the lead role in producing.

ANACAPRI – Villa San Michele have invited visitors back after three months of lockdown due to the Corona virus epidemic in Italy. The opening of the beautiful house museum in a small town at the to

“There are people… who find islands somehow irresistible.” Lawrence Durrell

 PERUGIA -- A list of Umbria's  unique claims to fame is practically endless: it is the birthplace of two of Christianity's major saints, St.

 ROME – An authentic, natural and welcoming lifestyle is one of the keys to Puglia's tourism success.

 Calabria is sometimes seen as a backward region corroded by a criminal underworld but this afflicts mainly its southern zones.  A recent trip to its northernmost province revealed instead a surpri

ROME – Passengers in the Eternal city will receive an ATAC ticket for every 30 recycled plastic bottles they bring to special machines installed on a year long trial, part of a new scheme introduce

STROMBOLI, Sicily -- The volcano on the Sicilian island of Stromboli erupted Wednesday spewing out lava and rocks, sending terrified tourists and islanders out into the surrounding sea to escape th

VENICE – Recent research from companies like Responsible Travel highlights the inexorable and mounting crisis that the tourist industry is creating.

BOLOGNA - On a mild April morning, the Bologna’s Guglielmo Marconi airport saw the landing of an Embraer 190 aircraft, with registration OH-LKE, of the Finnish fl

 VALLETTA, Malta – A bold plan by Maltese company AX Group to build a tunnel under Malta’s ancient fortress capital is expected to relieve the chronic traffic congestion plaguing the island by prov

MILAN – A school bus driver of Senegalese origin seized and set fire to his vehicle packed with school children Thursday morning by dousing the interior with gasoline.

ROME - The Mayor of Venice Luigi Brugnaro Thursday presented the city’s plans for a new visitor tax that he hopes will pave the way to a more sustainable future f

ROME – The Italian Civil Aviation Authority ENAC has grounded flights with the Boeing 737 Max 8 aeroplane.