MILANO (ITALPRESS) – The present and future scenarios of tourism and business travel were the protagonists of the day of discussion held at the Palazzo del Ghiaccio in Milan for the Biztravel event, the Forum born in 2003 from an idea of the president of the Uvet Group, Luca Patanè. For the 2025 edition entitled: “Beyond the stall, squarci di luce” guests and partners have dialogued during the different discussion panels held during the day. The travel point made it the president of Uvet, Luca Patanè, who, urged by Nicola Porro on issues related to geopolitical conflicts, proved optimistic on the prospects of next year. The duties also raise concerns, but also here Patanè has shown himself to be anything but concerned: “We have grown in 10%, both at the level of values and travel.” Valerio De Molli, Managing Partner and CEO, The European House Ambrosetti and TEHA Group, has listed a series of positive results obtained from Italy that “is no longer a queue of the Euro area: the cumulated growth in the post-Covid period of 15.4% is higher than the European average and ahead of France and Germany”. Among the present also the Minister of Tourism, Daniela Santanchè who has emphasized how the numbers are giving reason to the country system and how the training for the workers and the workers of the sector is priority: “In tourism 3.2 million people work and more than 50% are women, after Covid many have abandoned this job, so we decided to focus on detaxation of holidays, in bringing taxes on tips to 5% and put 66 million available for staff homes in order to calm rents for those seeking accommodation to work.” Among the speakers of the BizTravel Forum also Joerg Eberhart, CEO ITA Airways; Gianpiero Strisciuglio, CEO and CEO of Trenitalia; Fredric Lindgren, Vice President, Agency Sales EMEA, Travelport; James Adams, Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer, International – Avis Budget Group. The business travel sector awaits Milan Cortina, the winter Olympics will be strategic for further development of the tourist sector and on this the minister Santanchè proposes the idea of equipping the locality of an airport: “It is a battle that I will continue to carry on, despite all the criticisms received.” And the athletes closed the day with the participation of the skier Irene Curtoni, Olimpica in PyeongChang in 2018 and Giuliano Razzoli, Olympic gold in the special Slalom at the 2010 Vancouver Games.
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