The press conference to present the new summer season was held on Friday 22 March which, from 31 March to 27 October, will bring new routes to the Catania and Comiso airports.The Catania hub will reach 98 destinations for 28 connected countries, of which 73 international and 25 national, with the involvement of 55 airlines. A growth already anticipated by the excellent data of the Easter period, for which an increase of +3.77% in movements and +3.96% in terms of passengers is expected compared to 2023. “We are proud that airlines continue to invest in our airports, confirming the importance that the airports of Catania and Comiso have for Sicily and for the entire national panorama. This success is the result of constant negotiations and demonstrates our commitment to guaranteeing a satisfying travel experience for passengers” states Nico Torrisi, CEO of the Catania Airport Company. [Source: Catania Airport]

The “Forum of Tourism Economies” took place this morning at the Palermo Enna Chamber of Commerce, in which our publisher Nino Messina participated, representing Confapi Sicilia as regional Unigec President.The event, organized by UniCredit in collaboration with the Palermo Enna Chamber of Commerce, saw the participation of representatives of the Sicilian tourism sector. Speakers included Salvatore Malandrino, Regional Manager Sicily UniCredit, Alessandro Albanese, President of the Chamber of Commerce of Palermo and Enna, Nico Torrisi, President Federalberghi Sicilia and President Advisory Board UniCredit Sicilia, Ludovico Giambrone representing the Sicilian Region Department of Tourism, Sport and Entertainment , Marcello Mangia, President and Head of Hospitality Mangia’s and Laura Anello, President of the Le Vie dei Tesori Foundation. The event was moderated by Marco Romano, Director of the Giornale di Sicilia. The meeting was full of useful ideas for the Sicilian tourism sector, which is particularly flourishing in the post-Covid period. Among…

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The Municipality of Palermo: «Proud of the event, now a tender to recover all the spaces of the exhibition center” Everything is ready for the eighth edition of Expocook and the Municipality of Palermo decides to make it a springboard for the recovery of the Mediterranean Fair, through a tender for the renovation of disused spaces. «We found the city’s exhibition center in a state of abandonment», declares the councilor for Productive Activities of the Municipality of Palermo, Giuliano Forzinetti, during the presentation of Expocook 2024, in the Mario Palumbo press room of the Sicilian Regional Assembly. «We have started with the essential works – adds the councilor – to make the pavilions usable again and make them available to Expocook. For the administration it is a source of great pride to be able to host such a prestigious event at the Mediterranean Fair. That’s why we won’t stop from…

The summer season of the Falcone Borsellino international airport in Palermo includes new airport connections. There are 90 destinations that will connect 26 countries with the Falcone Borsellino international airport in Palermo: 26 national routes and 64 international. 35 airlines will fly millions of passengers from the Palermo airport.New connections are planned for New York (Neos Air, starting from next June 9th), as had already been anticipated in the interview with the President of Gesap, Salvatore Burrafato, in Amazing Sicily Magazine, Poznan (Ryanair) and Brest (Volotea) , while Porto (easyJet) doubles the frequency. There is also the increase from four to six weekly frequencies of Turkish Airlines’ Palermo-Istanbul flight.The Ryanair airline maintains all of last summer’s operations and adds the Polish Poznan route, for a total of 41 routes and 5 based aircraft; increases frequencies on over 15 existing routes such as Barcelona, London, Paris and Vienna.The summer season promises…

After twenty years of studies, research and restoration, the “stone giant” of ancient Akragas has risen again. The “Telamon”, one of the colossal anthropomorphic statues that supported the architrave of the temple of Olympian Zeus, the Olympieion, symbol of the Valley of the Temples, has been brought back to an upright position. The statue, almost 8 meters high, is supported by a 12 meter steel structure to which shelves are anchored where the individual pieces are placed. The entire museum project of the Olympian area, which has so far cost 500 thousand euros of Park funds, includes the upcoming reconstruction on the ground of a part of the entablature and the frame of the temple, in order to make a more concrete idea of the colossal dimensions and uniqueness of the monument but, at the same time, protect the finds. In 2004, the Valley of the Temples Park began an…

2023 was a good year for tourism in the Sicily region. The overall numbers of national and international arrivals recorded 15 million. A result that led the Region to be elected, for last year, queen of Italian tourist destinations. Strengthened by this, Sicily returns to the spaces of the BIT in Milan with a stand of great visual and emotional impact, designed by the internal staff of the Region’s Tourism Department, measuring 1015 m2 characterized by large LED walls and mirrored surfaces: a large marketplace made available to visitors to participate in appointments, meetings and events that will highlight the attractions of a constantly evolving territory, full of stimuli, products and naturalistic wonders that have underlined its success for years. There will be 62 workstations available, occupied by 31 agencies and tour operators, 29 accommodation facilities and 2 restaurants. Present at the stand were the president of the Sicilian Region…

From 22 December, in time for the Christmas holidays, it will be possible to find the second issue of Amazing Sicily in free distribution at the Falcone Borsellino airport in Palermo and, for the first time, at the Fontanarossa airport in Catania!The cover and main article of the Sicilian travel magazine are dedicated to Palermo and its Arab-Norman Route, a UNESCO heritage site. In the nature section you can discover the Etna Natural Park, while in the pages dedicated to culture we could only celebrate Agrigento, which will be Capital of Culture in 2025. Even in our winter issue we could not leave our readers without images of a beautiful beach : this is why we went to Tindari, to make known everything about the legend of the Black Madonna.Erice is the protagonist of the new “villages” section, while for lovers of wine tourism we talk about Nerello Mascalese. An…

The Palermo airport hosts six great works by the artists Francesco Domilici and Arrigo Musti From September to December 2023, Falcone Borsellino Airport hosts IMPOP Archetypes, a contemporary art exhibition set up along the large corridor that connects the arrivals of the Palermo airport with the subway station. The exhibition consists of six works, each measuring 2 by 3 meters, a synthesis of photography and painting by the artists Francesco Domilici and Arrigo Musti, and is curated by Domenico De Chirico and Aldo Gerbino. Francesco Domilici brings to the stage some of the archetypes for which the Mediterranean area is historically recognizable in the collective imagination: to do so, he draws, with his photographs, from a reservoir of images of rural and maritime panoramas, with the professions connected to them.Arrigo Musti uses these images as a support to add a lysergic and brilliant painting, made with enamels, which refers to symbols,…

Torrisi: “A significant increase in flights to satisfy the expectations and needs of passengers” SAC announces that there will be 26,312 aircraft movements expected for winter of 2023/2024, compared to 21,674 thousand last season, numbers that mark a significant increase of 20% in flights and activity at Catania airport. The data announced by the company that manages the airports of Catania and Comiso, heralds a general strengthening of Sicilian infrastructure for the 2023/2024 winter season. The strengthening of SAC’s offer is due to four factors: the increase in the number of operations of the Ryanair company by almost 25% compared to last winter (10,574 movements against 8,438), the increase in flights of the Hungarian carrier Wizz Air (4,526 movements against 3,445, +31%), and of the two Italian companies ITA Airways (4,144 movements against 3,662, +13%), and Aeroitalia. Aeroitalia itself, which began its activity at the end of last season with…