On 30 September to the sixth edition of Italian Cruise Day will hold



Next the 30 september to will hold the sixth edition of Italian Cruise Day, forum for the crocieristica industry in the course of which 25 relatori will face some of thematic the more important regarding field in their participations and the round tables in program.

In occasion of the event Answers Tourism, the society of search and advising in the tourist field that organizes the manifestation this year in partnership with the Harbour Authority of and Discover La Spezia, it has anticipated some own projections updated on the crocieristico traffic in the Italian ports that - second the company - this year will pile 11,4 million passengers, with an increase of +2.78% on 2015, and will be about 5.000 touched ship (+3.53%).

To the appointment on 30 September, than one will hold in the Auditorium of the Port of, will participate in quality of relatori, between the others, Pierfrancesco Vago, chairman of CLIA Europe, Manfredi Lefebvre d' Ovid, chairman of CLIA Italy, Kristijan Pavic, president of MedCruise, Giovanni Bastianelli, executive director of ENIT - National Agency of Tourism, Eduardo Santander, executive director European Travel Commission, and Carlo Corazza, head unit tourism DG Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs European Commission.

The session of opening of the forum, entitled "the crocieristica in Italy: state of the art and future perspectives", this year will be dedicated also to the more important aspects of the current scene and that perspective one of the crocieristica industry in Italy, from the investments to the producing potentialities of, from the construction of the routes to the relations inside of the production row.

To follow the delivery of the Prize of Bachelor ICD will hold (value: 1,000 euros) and of the Prize of Laurea Assoporti (value: 500 conferred euros), acknowledgments, respective, to the author of the best graduation thesis dedicated to the production and/or crocieristico tourism and the crocieristica portualità.

Al term of the award the press conferences will hold of the Harbour Authority of Cagliari and of Ligurian Ports Alliance, two between the adherent truths to the House of the Italian Crocieristici Ports, the initiative that, within Italian Cruise Day, afford to the crocieristici terminals to introduce the obtained results, the projects in being and the activities in program to the operators of the section, the administrators publics and to it prints.

In the afternoon the work will resume with the second entitled session "crocieristi Welcomes! The territorial initiatives of acceptance and assistance to the passengers" dedicated to the projects and the initiatives proposed from local authorities and several operating subjects at the level of destination to the passengers of the cruise ships, in order to conclude with the session from the title "the Italian crocieristica in the picture of national the tourist macroindustry and the addresses of European politics" during which the relatori will be confronted on the level of attention to the classified crocieristico field from the national and European tourist policies.

Italian Cruise Day 2016 will accommodate also Carriere@ICD, only career day the Italian one newly dedicated exclusively to the world of the crocieristica, in program this year friday to the term of the round tables always near the Auditorium of the Port. The initiative will be developed as a series of encounters between the young people, the selected from the organizational secretariat, and responsible human resources of some of the main companies of the field between which companies of cruise, harbour companies, marine agencies, tour operator and Network of travel agencies.

Moreover the forum will see also this year the presentation by Francesco di Cesar, president of Answers Turismo, the Italian Cruise Watch 2016, the search relationship on the crocieristico field in Italy cured from the society. Besides the data on a national level, the last projections in regional within show as in the 2016 Liguria the region will be confirmed leader in Italy for number of passengers enlivened in own ports, leadership obtained by virtue of beyond 2,6 million passengers enlivened (+2.1% on 2015), continuation from the Latium (than little more 2,3 million passengers, +1.3%), Campania (1,7 million passengers, +6.1%), Veneto (1,6 million passengers, +1.1%) and Sicily (beyond 1,1 million passengers, +1.7%).

Moreover it classifies it previsional of touched the ship sees a leadership of the Latium (estimated 874 landings place in its three ports), which it follows the Campania (with 810 landings place in the ports of Naples, Salerno, Sorrento, Amalfi, Capri, Positano and Agropoli) and Sicily (789 touched in the ports of Palermo, Messina, Catania, Trapani, Naxos Gardens, Lipari, Porto Empedocle, Milazzo, Syracuse, Licata and Pozzallo).

Analyzing in the detail the results achieved from the single ports, second the esteem of Answers Tourism, in 2016 Civitavecchia will be confirmed to the first place with about 2,3 million passengers enlivened (+1.3% on 2015) and 835 touched ship (+5.2%), continuation from Venice with the 1,6 million one passengers (+1.1%) and 535 touched ship (+2.7%) and Naples with about 1,3 million passengers (+5.2%) and 480 touched ship (+7.9%).

"2016 - it has observed of Cesar - are anticipated as year of stability or light increase regarding the results of 2015, this last in meaningful increase on the year precedence. Draft therefore of data to look at itself positively, that they confirm also the balances and the positions in classifies of the various harbour truths. There is but to attend to know the first forecasts on 2017, that we will give in occasion of the Italian Cruise Day, in order to understand which it will be in the medium period the trajectory that the traffic volumes will design".

In sight of the end of month appointment the president of the Harbour Authority of, Lorenzo Forcieri, has remembered that the harbour agency "has decided during the last few years to invest with conviction in the crocieristico field and - has specified - the obtained results relieve us in the vision of our abilities and opportunity as territory, port and city. The crocieristico field - it has emphasized Forcieri - plays a role more and more important is for the port is for the development of tourism and, in general terms, for the economy of the city and the province. For this we have managed, with the municipal administration, to the associations and the operators, sundries initiatives in order to ulteriorly value this which variegated territory. And La Spezia is demonstrating to believe in this opportunity".

"The choice to carry out the Italian Cruise Day 2016 here - it has concluded Forcieri - is for us reason of great satisfaction, as we have a chance for accommodate I confront frank and concrete between institutions, companies and operators whom they give all Italy has reached in our city. The port of sees so still more recognized a more and more important role between the national excellence and asserts its model of development based on new realized infrastructures and the high quality of the offered services. The arrival of names between the more important in the world-wide panorama, represents a stimulus in order to make to complete to an ulterior and decisive cultural jump in topic of acceptance and hospitality".

Also the president of Discover La Spezia, Maurizio Pozella, has evidenced that the development of the Italian Cruise Day 2016 to reaches "confirmation of a role by now consolidated in the panorama of the acceptance of the hosts of the cruise ships that scale La Spezia and the promotion of the territory. This important event - it has added - represents an ulterior stimulus for Discover that will pick every opportunity in order to assure an increase in the quality and the type of the offered services".