NEW ENTREPRENEUR (NE)
Country: Sweden
Name: Klas Lofstrom
Age: 34
Activity Sector: Tourism
Company/Contacts: ltalienska kulturresor,
Baokastigen, 6 – 274 51, Skivarp, Sweden
HOST ENTREPRENEUR (HE)
Country: Italy
Name: Susanna Mantovani
Years of Experience: 25 years
Sector: Tourism
Company: Florence Promhotels, Viale A. Volta, 72 – 50131 Florence, Italy
Duration of the exchange: 2 months
Brief Introduction – hosting company: Florence Promhotels is a leader in the field of Hotel reservation in Florence and its province.
For over 25 years successfully it carries out the role of promoting the destination “Florence” and its associated hotels (over 12,000 people), offering its customers accommodation in hotels from one to five stars and
in accommodation which is not typical hotel, like B & B. rooms rent, historic home, holiday home,
residences, hotels and residences in the Florentine countryside, always guaranteeing high standards
quality, service, courtesy and professionality.
ltatienska ku lturresor – new company: ltalienska kulturresor is a travel company that seeks to propose
services for those who are interested, as well as the most popular tourist destinations, the deep knowledge of a
place and its people. The travel experience should be unique: the tourist will be taken off the usual tourism map in places less known and most characteristic. The exclusivity of the trips is not so much luxury, but is genuine offers to the tourist, the ability to go in places where other tourists were not.
Activities carried out:
“During my Erasmus experience I followed the daily work within the host society, I worked on creating travel plans, I participated in various events and – especially – I met with the help of my HE, the Tuscan territory, its inhabitants. and people working in the tourism industry.
The first destination of the trips will arrange Tuscany, to make known to Swedish tourists local traditions, the traditional Tuscan dishes, wines and the people who live in this territory with which it has a relationship
so profound and moving.
I will try to help preserve the Tuscan territory by promoting green tourism and environmentally-friendly agriculture and biological, local activities and the traditions of the local people.
Results:
“The results are critical to my company. I talked a lot with the technical director of host society that has given me many ideas and who gave me a different way of seeing the business. I Have also had the opportunity to create contacts for my business and I learned how the tourism sector Toscana works. These are the very things I wanted to do – meet all the goals of my Erasmus experience.
For Further information:
Intermediary organization of the young entrepreneur: European Minds – Dott. David Lindgren Zacharias
david@norrbottenshandelskammare.se
Intermediary organization of the host entrepreneurs
CSCS – Dott. Stefano Tirati
stefano.tirati@gmail.com
This article was funded by the European Union’s COSME Programme (2014-2020).
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