Articles tagged “italy”

The cuisine offered in France, Spain, and Italy is enough to get tourists from around the world to book a ticket and lists like this serve to fuel future tourist’s plans.

Despite the glamour of its Venice location, the Cipriani brand isn't new to financial and legal challenges. This can often happen when your empire is built on exorbitantly priced peach pulp and champagne cocktails.

Tourism is a mixed blessing for sites like this that rely on the revenue for conservation efforts, but also undergo heavy wear and tear from tours in addition to natural forces of deterioration.

The promise to deliver a project that's not just for VIPs will likely be adjusted upwards as the true cost of making a project like this happen really comes into focus.

National economies that rely on tourism are foolish to let famous monuments become tarnished. And for monuments like the Duomo that have a history of relying up on rich patrons for favors, its latest fundraiser isn't out of place at all.

The tourist-centric city has become so much a destination for foreigners rather than a place were people live and work that that tragedy of its more common than ever flooding is of low priority for Italians.

Technology has clearly changed the way we travel with nearly as much time spent staring down at a screen as up at the sights, but apps, when done well, can help deepen our understanding of a location.

It's one thing for a food guide to have one angry restaurant on its case and another one entirely to have all of Naples' pizza makers out for your blood.

It's a testament to Alitalia's string of failures that a limited-time menu on Rome to New York flights is something to get excited about. But when you're talking about the best market in two countries, it's enough.

The episode, combined with an unrelated outbreak of fungal meningitis on US cruise ships, highlights why hygiene is a hefty variable to consider when takking a cruise.