Venice Italy Travel is a Venice-based Italy specialist. “We started in 1989, concentrating on the Japanese market but before the lockdown we had decided to expand our reach and had started working with the US and European markets. Given our long years of experience programming Venice and its region, Italy’s great art cities and popular destinations, as well as specializing in weddings – and we had also added Sardinia and Sicily - we were getting a very positive early response from all markets when the pandemic hit,” says owner Tokuro Suzuki.
Working with the Japanese, US and European markets
With Japan now open for business and student travellers on visas, there are hopes that the outbound market will soon reopen. “At present we are getting requests from Japan and also from the US and Europe but, since the Ukraine War started, there have also been cancellations. There is a lot of interest in Japan for Italy as a wedding destination, and we expect this will be the first sector to take off again with requests for weddings and honeymoons. The most popular locations are Venice, Rome and Florence.”
‘We need more state help to get tourism going again’
The support operators in the travel business got from the Italian government at the start of the epidemic was welcome, added Suzuki. “But now that we are struggling to get going again, we really need more state help to guarantee the recovery of tourism.”
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3 nights - 4 days in Venice
6 nights in Sardinia
