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DMC in Lugano for incoming tourism to Switzerland and Italy

World tourist offers a complete travel resource for leisure, business meetings, incentive tourism, conferences and exhibitions., destinations and experiences.

Exclusive trips to St. Moritz

Cheese and chocolate tours

Vineyard tours

Rail tours of Switzerland

Lake tour – from Lucerne to Lugano

Discovery tour of the italian regions

Skiing in the swiss alps

Driving tours in sports cars

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Hotels, apartments, alpine chalets and huts - Berghütten

Car, mini bus, limousine, train, bus, boat, helicopter, private jet

Standard and Bespoke Tours, carefully curated to clients desire with multilingual Guides and/or Tour Leaders

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Meeting, incentives, conferences and exhibitions.

Why choose Worldtourist International?

• Widespread presence throughout Switzerland and Italy
• Multilingual, experienced staff specialising in incoming tourism
• 24/7 availability
• Established network of leading partners.
• Collaboration with the offices of Saistours Albania and Italy, a historical, trusted and professional group with more than 50 years experience in the field of Incoming Tourism, with a dedicated concierge and attention to individual traveller needs also available, upon request

WorldTourist International is a Lugano based tour operator that is part of Saistours, a group with over fifty years of experience in Incoming Tourism, operating in Italy, Switzerland and The Balkans.

WorldTourist International caters to the needs of tour operators, coach operators, travel agencies and companies for both Groups and FITs itinerary requirements on Swiss and Italian destinations.

World Tourist International

Historic, internationally renowned tour operator based in Lugano, Switzerland specialized in incoming (DMC) in Switzerland and Italy. Oriented towards a B2B audience, it manages series and ad hoc medium and large groups , mainly from Northern, Central and Southern Europe, but also UK, USA and GCC for short or long stays.

Themes of interest: discovery of the territory, culture, history, nature and gastronomy.

Dedicated product tours such as wine, cheese, honey, chocolate, but also itinerant tours of interest in the area active in architectural, meteorological, pharmaceutical, artistic, high tech, design and banking fields.

Green and eco-sustainability: slow mobility, cycling, walking, trekking, but also tours by train, boat and bus. Adventure, adrenaline, wow effect, exclusivity.

Tailor-made sports car tours to discover beautiful Italy and luxurious Switzerland.

Transgenerational, for all seasons, with different interests and large or limited spending power.

Mountains, valleys and lakes to live unique experiences.

7 Italian-speaking lakes District discovered by 7 means of transportations (Lake Lugano, Como, Varese, Orta, Iseo, Garda, Maggiore by walking, trekking, biking, sailing, car, bus, rail).

Authentic activities that personify Swiss and Italian typicalities, set in the destination to savor the local taste and flair enjoying every moment to tell.

A full service operator, One Stop Shop, for incentive, business and MICE group-travelers (from 6 to 80 people and more).

All-round events, but also wedding organization and much more.

Offered services:

• Accommodation (hotels, apartments and chalets)
• Transfers (car, minivan, limousine, train, bus, boat)
• Tours, programs, entrance tickets, multilingual guides, tour leaders
• Restaurants, tastings, cooking-classes

Highlights:

• Widespread presence on the territory, multilingual
• Tailored programs, combined itineraries if of interest (Italy-Switzerland and Switzerland-Italy)
• Availability and reachability
• Historic, reliable and professional company
• Collaboration with consolidated Partners, competitiveness on the market
• Professional Staff, problem solver and exclusive and personalized offers
• Collaborations with Saistours Italia offices (North, Central and South Italy + Islands and Balkans-Albania) for Fly & Drive programs, dedicated Concierge and attention also to an individual audience.

For ideas, solutions and programs write to: [email protected]

Contact/Address

Viale dei Faggi 10 , 6900 Lugano [email protected] worldtourist.travel +41 91 971 85 00

Disclaimer The information on this site, concerning services or products is provided by external partners. This Information is liable to change frequently; for this reason Lugano Region cannot be held liable for any inaccuracies.

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Whatever your holiday needs our Company is proud to provide one of the most exciting and unique holiday programmes available today! Your membership will entitle you to unlimited travel, leisure and discount benefits. Indulge yourself in romantic resort vacations throughout the world. Sail from one exotic destination to another on an unforgettable Cruise. Take friends or family to an exclusive villa, a weekend break or a business trip in the Worlds top hotels. Hire a car or simply book a flight all at specially negotiated membership prices. Buying power of the membership This is the most simple fact involved in the concept. An individual purchasing any item will pay the normal retail price. We, however, have the collective purchasing power of a constantly growing membership of thousands of families, enabling us to purchase in bulk and in advance at the very best prices available. We then pass these benefits on to our members.  So, the saying "The more the merrier" certainly applies to us! We cater for a wide range of clientele and guarantee low cost holiday options and absolute satisfaction for members and their immediate families. Members have the flexibility to choose the type of holiday or travel benefit which suits their requirements and budget. Plus enjoy unlimited reservations and savings!!!! Our holiday venues and resorts are unique and are located throughout the World, and with over 500 000 holiday options available for members to choose from, we've got you covered! Our Promise We are committed to providing our members with high quality services that are well structured, creative, and economically viable. We are fair, honest, courteous and professional. We are sensitive to our clients needs and dedicated to their satisfaction.

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• Diverse Accommodation We cater for every taste from the Budget accommodation to 5* Luxury. When you search our SA accommodation, you will find Hotels, Lodges, B&B, Guest Houses, Self Catering Resorts and much more. We even offer you discounted accommodation in Timeshare Resorts without you being a owner! Our discounts vary from property to property and you will find discounts of up to 50% on holidays depending on how you book it! WE have  a diverse portfolio of resorts, ranging from 5* Luxury Hotels, Game Lodges, Guest Lodges, Timeshare resorts, B&B accommodation and much more. These properties does not feature a live online booking facility, and reservations will have to be made via The Members Reservation Center. One call does it all! Or just click when you see the easy to use Click Quote service button and you will receive confirmation from our reservations department electronically.
• Hotels Through our affiliations to the Internet's largest Hotel Discount Reservation systems and associated hotel chains, we have created one of the most flexible hotel discount programmes available today. Through the Global Discount Hotel Reservations we are connected to hotel chains with thousands of hotel properties spread throughout the world. Discounts for members can be as high as 70% off the normal rack rates of these Hotels. WE dedicate ourselves to providing the very best for your money, committing ourselves to the highest personalized service, with this in mind we offer different Hotel Reservation systems, as all our members are unique in the way they use the system. Currently we feature only one of our Hotel Inventory suppliers for members to browse on our website so members can have an indication of available hotels and rates. Via our Reservations Department members can axcess various other Hotel Suppliers that are not featured on the Members website for viewing. To get access to these Hotels and the best discounts possible, members have to contact the Reservations Department. We currently offer members access to more than 60 000 Hotels worldwide at members-only discounts that can be as high as 70% off the hotels rack rate.
• Tour Packages  As a service to our members, we have negotiated special discounts from various Tour & Package operators for our members that prefer to take predefined package holidays. Via our suppliers we offer hundreds of packages worldwide. Maybe you feel like Mauritius or that 21 day escorted group tour of Europe, your options are almost endless.
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UN Tourism | Bringing the world closer

Unwto 2022: a year in review.

2022 has been the year to rethink tourism . Countries around the world turned UNWTO’s vision for a greener, smarter and more inclusive sector into real action.

2022 began on a positive note. Data from UNWTO showed that tourism was cautiously taking off , and that it needed to be rethought . The UN amplified UNWTO’s global advocacy for tourism’s role in recovery. UNWTO partnered with sister agencies like WHO for example, around joint warnings that “ Blanket Travel Restrictions Don’t Work ".

Advancing common UN goals, UNWTO and WHO called for the lifting of travel bans and agreed to collaborate on a global trust architecture for the recovery of travel. While leaders committed to join UNWTO to build a social and environmentally sustainable tourism, February ended with UNWTO leading the voice of tourism for peace and solidarity in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

UNWTO data continued to reflect the promising start of tourism in 2022. This month, UNWTO released New Guidelines Put Women’s Empowerment at Heart of Tourism’s Restart , and announced the launch of the second edition of Best Tourism Villages by UNWTO to promote rural development through tourism.

Meeting for the first ever extraordinary UNWTO General Assembly against the backdrop of the Russian invasion in Ukraine, UNWTO Members voted to suspend Russia from Membership . Reinforcing the Global Goals, UNWTO launched the “Awake Tourism Challenge” for startups . The Glasgow Declaration kept growing since its launch at COP26 and surpassed 500 signatories to take climate action through tourism.

A landmark moment: UNWTO and tourism reached the top of the UN agenda: the first ever UN General Assembly High-Level Debate on Sustainable Tourism in New York, fueling immediate actions and reverberating during the rest of the year. Other May highlights include upgrading SMEs with the Digital Futures programme , and strengthening consumers’ rights with more countries adhering to the International Code for the Protection of Tourists .

Facing up to uncertainty, tourism kept on growing , as reported by the UNWTO World Tourism Barometer. This set the backdrop for the 116 UNWTO Executive Council (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia). UNWTO successfully advocated for tourism action at the UN Ocean Conference (Lisbon, Portugal), ahead of the biggest event on tourism and youth.

Youth empowerment is a UNWTO priority. The first Global Youth Tourism Summit gathered young people from 57 countries to be part of tourism’s decisions, as reflected in the Sorrento Call to Action . That same month, the UN Secretary-General's  Progress report on SDGs drew on UNWTO’s statistical work to track tourism’s role in driving growth.

International tourism continued reporting positive, recording 250 million international arrivals during the first five months of 2022. This set the backdrop ahead of World Tourism Day 2022 and its theme Rethinking Tourism .

27 September, World Tourism Day emphasized the sector’s unique potential to drive recovery and deliver positive change for people everywhere. This followed the G20 Tourism Working Group me eting in Bali, where UNWTO presented the G20 Bali Guidelines for SMEs. Looking at the progress since the start of the year, tourism was back to 60% of pre-pandemic levels.

A busy month also saw UNWTO advancing tourism and rural development at the 6th Wine Conference on Wine Tourism (Alba, Italy), and promoting education in tourism with the launch of the first national competition of UNWTO Students’ League in Switzerland.

Sustainability and the green transformation of tourism took centre stage in October as the UNWTO International Network of Tourism Observatories (INSTO) welcomed more members, and Ministers agreed to advance circularity and climate action in Pan European tourism.

Tourism was transformed at the UNWTO Ministers’ Summit, the most successful edition to date with delegates joining UNWTO’s vision to rethink tourism. UNWTO made the case for tourism in COP27 , where it represented over 700 signatories of the Glasgow Declaration advancing a NetZero sector. This was followed by new data showing arrivals reached 63% of pre-pandemic levels during January-September 2022. This set the framework for the 117 UNWTO Executive Council (Marrakesh, Morocco).

Rural development, inclusivity and sustainability led conversations at the 7th World Forum on Gastronomy Tourism . Winners of Best Tourism Villages and Students League wrapped up 2022 with their solutions to boost rural development through tourism. In 2023 we look forward, making the shift from rethinking to transforming the sector around key priorities: jobs and training, education and youth development, and sustainability and innovation. With UNWTO as tourism's voice at the global level, including at the UN General Assembly, the sector has never been more relevant - nor more needed.

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• In 2023, the Travel & Tourism sector contributed 9.1% to the global GDP; an increase of 23.2% from 2022 and only 4.1% below the 2019 level.
• In 2023, there were 27 million new jobs, representing a 9.1% increase compared to 2022, and only 1.4% below the 2019 level.
• Domestic visitor spending rose by 18.1% in 2023, surpassing the 2019 level.
• International visitor spending registered a 33.1% jump in 2023 but remained 14.4% below the 2019 total.

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From the outset, our Members realised that hard economic facts were needed to help governments and policymakers truly understand the potential of Travel & Tourism. Measuring the size and growth of Travel & Tourism and its contribution to society, therefore, plays a vital part in underpinning WTTC’s work.

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Each year, WTTC and Oxford Economics produce reports covering the economic contribution of our sector in 185 countries, for 26 economic and geographic regions, and for more than 70 cities. We also benchmark Travel & Tourism against other economic sectors and analyse the impact of government policies affecting the sector such as jobs and visa facilitation.

Visit our Research Hub via the button below to find all our Economic Impact Reports, as well as other reports on Travel and Tourism. 

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Edition 2024 Presentation

GENUA, PALAZZO DELLA MERIDIANA 12/14 SEPTEMBER 2024

The historic Palazzo della Meridiana in the centre of Genua is the prestige venue of the 15th edition of the World Tourism Event . An Exhibition for World Heritage Sites scheduled from 12th to 14th September 2024.

The well-established format of the World Torism Event features:  

Exhibition area  

The Exhibition area is reserved for all Italian and International World Heritage Sites and for all professionals, including tour operators who want to help their clients get the most from their holidays in a World Heriatge Site Region. The WTE exhibition area will offer information on each World Heritage Site and assist with tourist accommodation offers and communicate with tourism operators. Free admission to the exhibition for visitors for all three days of the WTE.  

The b2b Workshop has become a key event for operators. The b2b Workshop will take place on 12 September 2024, with two sessions, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. The workshop is reserved for international buyers, selected in collaboration with ENIT – Italian National Tourism Agency, and for Italian sellers who are based and operate in the areas included in the Unesco World Heritage List. Including all who intend to promote the territory, accommodation and cultural experiences of these areas.

Events and Experiences Area

One of the most exciting aspects of this next edition is the “Events and Experiences Area”. It is a place that we have created where professionals can bring their culture directly to the people. It remains always open and here you might find demonstrations (cooking, craft, performances), lectures or book presentations on the unique architecture or landscape or authentic and profound slow travel experiences.   It is an ever-evolving space for learning that brings a personal experience directly to the event participants. And, it is all free with admission for all three days of the WTE.

Specific focus will be on education in local schools, to help raise awareness in the next generation for the protection of Unesco treasures, offering new opportunities to grow and work.  

The choice of Genua , as the location for this year’s World Tourism Event, is because of so many Heritage Sites within the city and in the Liguria Region. And because of the dynamic and varied tourism sector operating in the area, Genua is the perfect choice for WTE exhibitors to connect with tourism professionals in Liguria and all the North-West of Italy.  

The World Tourism Event for 2024 offers itself as a privileged showcase both for exibithors who intend to promote the tourist offer in World Heritage Sites as well as for the attentive traveler who finds ideas, proposals and information for a rich, responsible and sustainable holiday. It is an unmissable opportunity for synergistic meeting between supply and demand operators. It offers a place where people can interact and exchange ideas that better serve the preservation of all Heritage Sites and where professionals can meet and enrich the tourist experience.  

The World Tourism Event 2024 will be held thanks to the collaboration and contribution of the Municipality of Genua and the Region Liguria. We will apply for the official recognition of the Ministry for Culture and of the Ministery for Tourism as well as for the collaboration and official recognition of ENIT – the National Tourism Agency , ICOMOS   Italia – the Italian National Commitee of the International Council on Monuments and Sites , FEACU – the European Federation of Unesco Clubs , FICLU – the Italian Federation of Unesco Clubs , FIAVET –   the Italian Federation of Associations, Travel and Tourism Agencies and of the Association of Italian World Heritage Sites.

We hope to see you present at our event and we remain at your disposal to identify the best solution for your participation.

For further information see: www.wtevent.it

Fill in the appropriate registration form to participate in the next edition of the World Tourism Event which will be held in Turin from 21 to 23 September.

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