Every year, some 2.5 million visitors travel to the Pyramids of Giza with the goal of experiencing something worthy of one of the Seven Wonders of the World. For a long time, however, reaching the archaeological site in Egypt meant dealing with crowd...
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New ways to visit an archaeological site: for five days, July 16-20, the Segesta Archaeological Park in Sicily will allow visitors unprecedented hot air balloon tours to see the ruins from above. From 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m., for five consecutive evenin...
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It's happening in Val Gardena (Bolzano province): four landowners, tired of seeing the siege of rude tourists at a scenic trail (that of Mount Seceda) that has become particularly well known thanks to an Apple campaign, decided of their own free will...
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AGTA, the Association of Licensed Tourist Guides, has expressed strong disapproval of the official syllabus for the professional certification exam published by the Ministry of Tourism. The reason for the protest concerns in particular the content se...
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The time is approaching for the national competition for tour guides, which will implement the reform of the tour guide profession as outlined in Law 190 of Dec. 13, 2023, which established the new national list of tour guides at the Ministry of Tour...
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Dominant and silent, Vicopisano's Clock Tower has punctuated the life of the Tuscan village in the province of Pisa for centuries, overlooking the rooftops and stories of a community deeply tied to its past. After years of closure, it returned to ope...
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In a ruling issued on May 15, the Regional Administrative Court of Lazio granted the precautionary petition filed byANGT, theNational Association of Tourist Guides, regarding the call for new guide qualification. The decision marks a significant step...
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Militello in Val di Catania is the Borgo dei Borghi 2025. The verdict came Sunday, April 20, in prime time on Rai3, during the final of Rai Cultura's program "Il Borgo dei Borghi," hosted by Camila Raznovich, which every year guides viewers on a jour...
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A total of 26,700 applications were submitted in four weeks (the deadline was Feb. 27) to take theexamination for the national license to practice as a tourist guide. An average of 953 per day, an astronomical number when one considers that there are...
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How much of the spiritual value of traveling to Rome in devout pilgrimage can be transformed into carefree tourism and still retain its value? How much is it estimable to speak of 'tourism' by associating it with the penitential journey to be underta...
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In Mexico, after two years of fruitful dialogue and coordinated work between theNational Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) and ejidal authorities, the ancient Mayan city of Ichkabal has opened its doors to the public as an archaeological s...
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Ryanair against the government: 'Take an example from Calabria'. Yes, it's not artificial intelligence fake news: the airline pioneer of low-cost flights has lashed out at Giorgia Meloni's government over an article contained in the Budget Maneuver ...
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Tourism "is gold" and "overtourism is blasphemy," and, indeed, our goal "is to increase by another 50 million tourists to reach the top of the podium" of the countries with the most tourists in the world. Very clear from the stage of the Italian Tour...
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The Renaissance, one of the most flourishing periods in the history of Italian art and culture, finds a new dimension thanks to the birth of the Renaissance in Valtiberina and Valdichiana itinerary. This itinerary, which winds its way through the mun...
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More than 134 million arrivals and 451 million presences: this is the new record of Italian tourism certified by Istat data for the year 2023 (where arrivals means the number of customers who checked in tourist accommodation establishments in the ref...
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"Explore Florence's vibrant nightlife with a drunken walking tour." Cost 59€. Alternatively, there is the upgrade version "Drunken history walking tour with open bar" for 70€. It sounds like fake news but in fact it is the latest frontier of p...
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