There are 22 Italian and international tourist buyers who are participating in the Strait Tourism Meetingpromoted by the metropolitan cities and municipalities of Reggio Calabria and Messina.
Until Saturday, after the first three days on the Messina shore, it will be the turn of the Reggio area to have the best of its cultural, artistic and food and wine beauties evaluated.
The welcome to the buyers, also coming from Norway, Finland, Brazil, the United States of America, Germany, Romania, Slovenia and Hungary, took place at the National Archaeological Museum, home of the Riace Bronzes and other treasures of Calabrian Magna Graecia .
Present for the occasion were the metropolitan and municipal mayor of Reggio Calabria, Giuseppe Falcomatàthe municipal councilor with responsibility for Tourism, Giovanni Latellathe Tourism Councilor of the Municipality of Messina, Enzo Caruso and the director of MarRc, Fabrizio They sweat. The event in general also makes use of the collaboration of Medfort, with the vice president present Veronica Calverithe Straits Port Authority and Ryanair.
For the director of Marrc Fabrizio Sudano «it is a nice initiative, it was certainly something that was desirable perhaps for some time already. We are extremely pleased that it comes now, in this period, in which the Ryanair routes have brought more tourists to Reggio Calabria and in general also to Messina, that the cruises that arrive in Messina can also have an outlet on Reggio, also thinking about the MarRc. . There is a whole museum to discover starting from the wonderful Riace Bronzes, which many still don’t know internationally, moving on to the other splendid collections, to other spaces such as the terrace itself”.
For councilor Giovanni Latella who followed the project very closely «it is a historic moment, it is the first time that we can make the Strait speak with a single voice, in this case on tourism, trying to enhance our beauties both Tyrrhenian, and the Ionian side, but also the mountains”.
«We wanted to give the best welcome, within the MarRc, to the tour operators who will be present in our metropolitan area from today until Saturday», said the metropolitan mayor Falcomatà, adding how «these are days that follow that beautiful initiative on Sunday last in Messina. Precisely for this reason, I would like to thank the mayor Federico Basile, councilor Caruso. For today also our director of Marrc Fabrizio Sudano, councilor Latella, the president of Sviprore, Michael Rizzo».
«We often talk about the Integrated Area of the Strait – said the mayor – we talk about a need for concrete synergy and exchanges of good practices between the two sides of the Strait. I believe that not only is the moment as propitious as ever, but I believe that this is a season of institutional dialogue that is already concretely bearing fruit. Because the institutions in the people I mentioned have really achieved this objective in a very short time, with the hard-working involvement of those who are concretely working to make our wonderful realities known to all those who have an interest in investing in our territory”.
«The buyers will make – he highlighted – scheduled tours first in the city and then in the main areas of the metropolitan area, in the full belief that this temporal situation, guaranteed also by arrivals at our airport, must be made the most of, with the commitment of Ryanair and of the Calabria Region, which are bringing many visitors, tourists and of course investors who have the opportunity to learn more about our reality.” (rrc)
