MILAN, Dec. 17 (Class Editori) – Italy is the fasten European Union Member States in the issuing of visas, with an average of 36 hours from the request. In addition, Italy is among the Schengen countries the one with the lowest cost of the service for visa application.
Two are the performances that Lucia Pasqualini, Italian Consul General in Guangzhou recalled officially, inaugurating on Monday 16th the Italian Visa Center (IVAC) in the new headquarters of Citic Plaza. Many innovations have been developed to meet the needs of users.
"Our country is now the one preferred by Chinese tourists, since now, on the eve of the Chinese New Year, a large number of Chinese citizens are applying for a visa for tourism and the tourists who go to Italy are constantly increasing," the consul said.
The new Center is spread over a vast area of 1,200 square meters, with an area dedicated to the promotion of the Sistema Italia, a children's corner and areas reserved for individual visa applicants and travel agencies.
In 2019, the Consulate General of Italy in Canton dealt with almost 90,000 visa applications, which have been steadily growing over the last three years.
The new Visa Center was created to further facilitate bilateral exchanges, Italy-China cooperation and the flow of tourists, in particular at the start, in 2020, of the Year of Culture and Tourism between China and Italy. It will be also the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, a further opportunity to deepen mutual understanding through culture and tourism.
On the evening of Monday, December 16, it was celebrated the "Notte Italiana" on the occasion of the centenary of ENIT, the national tourism agency. An event entirely dedicated to Italian beauties and an important opportunity to take stock of a strong and constant growth market such as Chinese outbound tourism.
During the evening were presented initiatives for 2020 and in particular the Italian cultural events, in collaboration with the CITIC group at Terminal 2 of Guangzhou international airport. From the Airport to the Airport.
The first exhibition will open in mid-January and will be dedicated to the "60 Years of Made in Italy", a project by Galgano & Tota Associati, with over forty tailoring masterpieces of Italian fashion.
Pasqualini, graduated in Political Science with a specialization in International Relations, at the University "La Sapienza" in Rome, fluent in English and German with a good knowledge of Chinese, two children, is Consul General of Italy in Canton since August 1, 2018. She has an in-deepth knowldege of China, because from 2006 to 2010 she served at the Embassy of Italy in Beijing as Head of the Ambassador's Secretariat.
Her diplomatic career started in 2002, from 2003 to 2006 she served in the Russian and Central Asia Unit of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation dealing with bilateral relations with the countries of competence. From 2010 to 2014 she was Vice Consul of Italy in New York, responsible for the passport, registry, consular, cultural, commercial and press sectors. From 2015 to 2018 she was Head of the scholarship office, promotion of the Italian language and publishing and internationalization of the university system at the Directorate General Promotion of the Country System of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.
(Source:Class Editori)
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