Dear friends, another year ends and looking back we realize how many things we have done (many), how many things we would have liked to do (too many) and how many things we are planning for the future (so many!) A few days ago, on behalf of all of us at We the Italians, I had the honor of receiving at the American Consulate in Florence the presti...
READ MORERoots Tourism starred in Florence, November 30, 2022 in the context of BTO - Be Travel Onlife, the benchmark event in Italy dedicated to the marriage between innovation and tourism. In an even more innovative formula set in the Metaverse, Giovanni Maria De Vita, head of the PNRR project on Roots Tourism of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, confronte...
READ MOREThe Basilicata Territorial Promotion Agency, in collaboration with Enit and with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is organizing for the end of November "Roots - In," the first international tourism exchange of origins. There is another Italy in the world. Even bigger. It is an Italy made up of some 80 million people, Italians or desc...
READ MOREMarina Gabrieli has been appointed national coordinator of the "Roots Tourism" project funded under the NRP and coordinated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, for an integrated strategy aimed at the recovery of the tourism sector in post covid-19 Italy. This was announced by Luigi Maria Vigni, director general for Italians abroad and migration pol...
READ MOREThe heritage tourism, in Italy called “tourism of the roots”, has arisen in the Italian public discourse a tremendous debate – think of the contributions of the PNRR foreseen for “return tourism”. The Altreitalie Center wishes to start to investigate the literature related to the visits home by the descendants of Italian emigrants and by contempora...
READ MOREThe protagonist of this new interview is one of the most important personalities among those who deal with Italian emigration abroad. Ilaria Del Bianco was President of UNAIE, the National Union of Immigrant and Emigrant Associations. She is a member of the Bureau of the Council of Tuscans Abroad, and President of the "Lucchesi nel mondo" Associati...
READ MOREThe Director General of the Mission Unit for the implementation of the Recovery Plan of the Ministry of Culture, Angelantonio Orlando, and the Director General for Italians Abroad of the Farnesina, Luigi Maria Vignali, signed today, at the Ministry of Culture, the Agreement that officially launches the Recovery Plan Project "Tourism of the Roots -...
READ MOREThe Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation is the home of our country's foreign policy. This glorious and historical Italian institution is in charge of the relations with other countries, with Italians around the world, and it is here that people are selected and strategies are decided to then represent Italy abroad, in the vari...
READ MORESono Lombardia, Molise, Calabria e Sicilia le quattro Regioni protagoniste del secondo volume “Guida alle radici italiane. Un viaggio sulle tracce dei tuoi antenati”, prodotta da Raìz Italiana con il sostegno della Direzione Generale per gli Italiani all’Estero del Maeci. L’impostazione ricalca quella del primo volume, risalente al 2019 e dedicato...
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