The Ferrovie dello Stato group presents FS Italian Tourist Trains. The new company was born with the mission of proposing an offer of railway services expressly designed and calibrated for quality tourism, sustainable and attentive to rediscovering the riches of the Italian territory. A tourism that can experience the train journey as an integral moment of the holiday, a quality element of the overall tourist experience. FS Italian Tourist Trains was presented by the CEO of Ferrovie dello Stato, Luigi Ferraris, at the National Railway Museum of Pietrarsa (Naples). Present authorities and stakeholders arrived aboard a train made up of prototypes of cars that will form an essential part of the fleet.
Italian tourist trains
The managing director of FS Treni Turistici Italiani illustrated the company's mission and characteristics Louis Cantamessa, with the FS Group since 2002 and general manager of the FS Italiane Foundation since 2013. During the presentation, among others, Msgr. Liberius Andreatta, president of the FS Foundation, the president of Trenitalia, Stephen Cuzzilla, the managing director of Trenitalia, Louis Corradi. The Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Edward Rixi, and Karima Delli, president of the Commission for Transport and Tourism of the European Parliament.
The Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani in a message he underlined the importance of the new company in the modern tourist strategy, capable of enhancing and allowing passengers to discover the lesser-known territories and beauties of our country. The new company will be incorporated in the Passenger Pole of the FS Italiane Group, headed by Trenitalia. The Board of Directors, chaired by Alessandro Vannini Scatoli, is made up of Liberio Andreatta, Luigi Cantamessa, Maria Luisa Grilletta and Cinzia Marzoli.
The different fields
There are three areas of service introduced by FS Italian Tourist Trains: Luxury, Express and Historical Trains and Omnibus–Regional.
LUXURY
With the traction of the prestigious trains luxuryfirst of all the Orient Express – la Dolce Vita, an Italian luxury train which will debut from 2024, or the legendary Venice Simplon Orient Express by Belmond, already operating on European itineraries
EXPRESS AND HISTORIC TRAINS
With the introduction of new connections, including at night, on medium-long range routes between the main Italian cities and places of significant tourist attraction. For example, night or day trains from Rome/Milan to Calalzo/Cortina, San Candido, Milan – Genoa with branches to Ventimiglia/Livorno; Rome – Metaponto – Catanzaro via Jonica e Reggio Calabria. The connections offered with trains Espresso they will be made up of cars from the 80s and 90s which will undergo complete redevelopment and modernization for exclusively tourist use in the Rimini railway workshops.
Workshops that will become a sort of refitting atelier for this segment, made up of cars capable of offering differentiated service environments. Including restaurant carriages with express cuisine on board, sleeping cars, meeting cars, trunks for transporting bikes, skis and vehicles for sustainable mobility. FS Italian Tourist Trains will also manage the journeys made with i historic trains, owned by the FS Foundation, in various regions and areas of historical-landscape interest of the peninsula, with ad hoc programs and more regular frequencies, tours that combine the train journey with stops for guided tours, walking routes and tastings.
OMNIBUS-REGIONAL
These are services that will guarantee the circulation of regional trains on weekends, at advantageous rates that are accessible to all. On lines that cross territories rich in history, with villages and areas of scenic and naturalistic interest, distinguished by peculiar food and wine and agri-food traditions. Also in this case the planning of the trip, the stops and the timetables will be studied precisely in a tourist-experiential key.
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