FS Treni Turistici Italiani company is born for sustainable tourism to discover Italy

The Ferrovie dello Stato Group unveiled the new company FS Treni Turistici Italiani (Italian Tourist Trains), which was established with the aim of proposing a range of rail services designed and calibrated for quality, sustainable tourism that is attentive to rediscovering the riches of the Italian territory. And with this in mind, train travel would also be an integral moment of the vacation.

The new company was presented by Ferrovie dello Stato CEO Luigi Ferraris at the National Railway Museum in Pietrarsa (Naples) in the presence of authorities and stakeholders who arrived aboard a train composed of prototype cars that will form an essential part of the fleet. Outlining the company’s mission and characteristics was FS Treni Turistici Italiani CEO Luigi Cantamessa, in the FS Group since 2002 and Director General of the FS Italian Foundation since 2013. Speakers at the presentation included Monsignor Liberio Andreatta, President of the FS Foundation, Trenitalia President Stefano Cuzzilla, Trenitalia CEO Luigi Corradi, Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Edoardo Rixi, and Karima Delli, Chair of the European Parliament’s Committee on Transport and Tourism, among others.
FS Treni Turistici Italiani will be framed within the Passenger Hub of the Italian FS Group, which is headed by Trenitalia. The Board of Directors, chaired by Alessandro Vannini Scatoli, is composed of Liberio Andreatta, Luigi Cantamessa, Maria Luisa Grilletta and Cinzia Marzoli.

Three areas of service have been introduced:

Luxury, with the traction of luxury trains, primarily the Orient Express - la Dolce Vita, an Italian luxury train that will debut starting in 2024, or Belmond’s Venice Simplon Orient Express, already operating on European routes;

Espresso and Historical Trains, with the introduction of new connections, including overnight connections, on medium- to long-distance routes between major Italian cities and places of significant tourist attraction (e.g., overnight or daytime trains from Rome/Milan to Calalzo/Cortina, San Candido, Milan - Genoa with branches to Ventimiglia/Livorno; Rome - Metaponto - Catanzaro via Jonica and Reggio Calabria). The connections offered by Express trains will consist of 1980s and 1990s cars that will undergo integral upgrading and modernization for tourism-only use in the Rimini railway workshops. Workshops that will become a sort of refitting atelier for this segment, consisting of cars that are intended to offer differentiated service environments (restaurant cars with express cooking on board, sleeping cars, meeting cars, luggage lockers for transporting bicycles, skis and means for sustainable mobility). FS Treni Turistici Italiani will also operate runs made with historic trains, owned by the FS Foundation, in various regions and areas of historical and scenic interest in the peninsula, with ad hoc programs and more regular frequencies, tours that combine train travel with stops for guided tours, walking routes and tastings.

Omnibus-Regional, services that intend to ensure the circulation of regional trains on weekends, at affordable rates accessible to all, on lines that cross territories rich in history, with villages and areas of scenic and naturalistic interest, characterized by food and wine and agri-food traditions. Again, trip planning, stops and schedules will be designed from a tourist-experiential perspective.

FS Treni Turistici Italiani will acquire the assets and rolling stock from Trenitalia’s commercial fleet, which, following modernization, will form a fleet of Italian trains that is tailored to the needs of tourists and will also include religious tourism cars. At a later stage, the new company will acquire real estate assets such as workshops for overhaul, outfitting and maintenance work. It will have its own personnel such as train drivers, train conductors and maintenance workers, trained according to the new tourist standards.

FS Treni Turistici Italiani will operate in cooperation with the FS Italian Foundation, which remains the owner of a fleet of nearly four hundred historic and protected vehicles, and especially with Trenitalia’s Business Departments: High Speed, Intercity and Regional and the entire Passenger Hub of the FS Group.

In addition to responding to the growing demand for rail tourism in Italy, FS Treni Turistici Italiani aims to promote a new sustainable tourism, to reach both well-known destinations and off the classic circuits.

World travelers are estimated to reach 2 billion in 2030. Most of these tourists will choose Italy, with growth in flows expected mainly from Asia. Italy ranks fifth in the world for number of tourists with about 56 million international arrivals in 2022 and a forecast of more than 75 million trips from abroad in 2023. According to a recent study, carried out by the Bocconi University of Milan on behalf of the FS Foundation, each traveler, for every euro spent in the purchase of services with historical-tourist train, spends at least 1.50 euros and up to 3.18 euros in goods and services offered by the territory crossed.

FS Treni Turistici Italiani company is born for sustainable tourism to discover Italy

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