Italian Journalists on familiarisation visit

A group of journalists from major Italian newspaper and magazine titles, are currently visiting Malta as part of a programme organised jointly between the National Tourism Organisation – Malta (NTOM) and top Italian tour operator HIT to promote the latter's Malta-only brochure, launched earlier this year through HIT subsidiary, Comitours.

The journalists met Dr Michael Refalo, Minister for Tourism, who following a meeting with the operator's senior executives during the BIT fair in Milan last February had announced HIT'sdecision to include Malta in their programmes.

The visiting journalists represent newspapers and magazines which are household names in Italy, and include national titles such as Gente Viaggi, Il Giornale and Novella 2000, those with a regional circulation, namely L'Eco di Bergamo and La Provincia di Como, as well as specialist travel and tourism journals.