Milan to host IGLTA Global Convention

Alessio-Virgili-IGLTA-Ambassador-for-Italy
Alessio-Virgili-IGLTA-Ambassador-for-Italy

The objective of a recent meeting was in anticipation of the 37th IGLTA Global Convention in 2020 on LGBTQ Tourism to be held in Milan.

Important news that raises the progress of the category supported for years by the LGBT World Organization was given at the recent Round Table organized by the AccorHotels Group under the patronage of the Consulate of the United States of America in Milan, AITGL (Italian Tourism Association Gay and Lesbian) and IGLTA (International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association) with the collaboration of Sonders and Beach Group, with positive feedback. The objective of the meeting was in anticipation of 2020, the date of the 37th IGLTA Global Convention on LGBTQ Tourism to be held in Milan.

Located in the northern Lombardy region of Italy, Milan has prevailed on other equally-important capitals, with the Italian hotel industry as an international destination for the IGLTA segment. The city has matured the personalized, discrete, and non-discriminatory reception system to guarantee non-discriminatory reception for the LGBTQ market.

The opinion poll

From the survey on the opinions, and stories really experienced by the participants, including a newly-married couple, common data has emerged, and that is there is still much work to be done by small- and medium-sized businesses in the tourism sector.

“We at Accorhotels see the diversity,โ€ commented Renzo Lorio, COO of AccorHotels Italy and Greece, โ€œas a treasure for the company and above all as an integral part of the travel experience. We take care to promote continuous training to our staff based on non-discrimination, gender, culture, or sexual orientation. We are proud that Milan was chosen as the site of the 37th IGLTA Global Convention on LGBTQ Tourism in 2020 and are proud to be able to welcome the operators who will participate in it.”

Alessio Virgili, IGLTA Ambassador for Italy, and promoter of the 2020 event that will host about 700 delegates from the media, tour operators, influencers, and decision leaders, attended the 35th Annual LGBT Convention in Toronto where Fabrice Houdart, Human Rights Officer at the High Commissioner for UN Human Rights, said “The Sonders and Beach international tourist group is the first Italian tourist reality to have adhered to the United Nations High Commissioner for Business Conduct Standards of Business.

โ€œWhat we want to achieve is a training plan from now to 2020 on the Milanese tourist supply chain, bringing case histories like AccorHotels Italia so as not to find unprepared the whole sector that will be directly involved in the 2020 event whose venue will be the Castello Sforzesco, prestigious ancient residence in the heart of Milan.”

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Mario Masciullo - eTN Italy

Mario is a veteran in the travel industry.
His experience extends worldwide since 1960 when at the age of 21 he started exploring Japan, Hong Kong, and Thailand.
Mario has seen the World Tourism develop up to date and witnessed the
destruction of the root/testimony of the past of a good number of countries in favor of modernity/progress.
During the last 20 years Mario's travel experience has concentrated in South East Asia and of late included the Indian Sub Continent.

Part of Mario's work experience includes multi activities in the Civil Aviation
field concluded after organizing the kik off of for Malaysia Singapore Airlines in Italy as an Institutor and continued for 16 years in the role of Sales /Marketing Manager Italy for Singapore Airlines after the split of the two governments in October 1972.

Mario's official Journalist license is by the "National Order of Journalists Rome, Italy in 1977.

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