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.

ROME - The British Foreign Office has raised alarm to tourists preparing to land in the Eternal City, warning them “Beware of the mirror scam,” the ploy used by criminals who fake accidents and the

ROME – The World Food Programme (WFP) has revealed the identities of the seven WFP staff members, from Italy, Indonesia, China, Ireland, Nepal and Serbia, who lost their lives in the Ethiopian Airl

ROME - Two young women from the Eternal City working for the World Food Programme (WFP) were among eight Italian citizens killed in the plane crash in Ethiopia Sunday.

ROME – As many as eight employees from the Rome-based UN food agencies WFP and FAO were among the 157 people killed Sunday when an Ethiopian Airlines jetliner crashed soon after take off from Addis

KUWAIT CITY - European Multi-Mission Frigate (FREMM) ITS Carlo Margottiniwill conduct cooperation activities with the local navy and provide support to national industry on her Naval Campaign in Mi

ROME – Tuesday morning at around 8.00 a.m., a fire triggered the evacuation and closure of the city’s Ciampino airport.

ROME – The European Union has warned Italy that it risks losing or having to repay euros 1.2 billion of European funding if it renounces the Turin-Lyon high-speed rail link known as TAV.

ROME - Frustrated coach drivers, enraged by Raggi’s proposal to ban tourist coaches from the city centre, decided to fight back Thursday by parking their buses for eight hours in Piazza Venezia.

ROME - When I arrive in Malta I expect a racy island with fast living gaming expats, speeding around on boats and jet skis.

BARI - Puglia’s official tourist board  launched a new marketing campaign in association with London based advertising agency CupTheMarket last week

ROME - Rome has been represented at London’s World Travel Market (WTM), one of the world’s most prestigious tourism fairs, for another year running.

ROME - Unable to stand the city’s overflowing bins, perilous potholes and rampant rodents any longer, Romans are to hold a mass sit-in on Oct. 27 in Piazza del Campidoglio.

ROME - New research published by the Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA) has revealed that almost half of Brits are confused about how Brexit will affect their holidays.

ROME – Antitrust, Italy's competition authority, has opened an inquiry into Ryanair’s new policy of charging passengers to take hand luggage onto the plane.