ENIT

Italian governmental agency

Logo of ENIT

ENIT—Agenzia nazionale del turismo, known in English as The Italian Government Tourist Board, formerly the Ente Nazionale Italiano per il Turismo ('Italian National Agency for Tourism') is the Italian national tourism board. The national Tourist Board is situated in Rome.

History

It was founded in 1919 under the Liberal-Radical government of Francesco Saverio Nitti.^[1] Following the transformation ordered by the 2005 regulation, the ENIT-Italian National Tourism Agency took over, with increased and more articulated institutional responsibilities, an almost one-hundred-year activity of the Italian National Tourist Board.^[2] In 2014 ENIT was transformed into a public economic body.^[3]

ENIT is responsible for the promoting tourism in Italy.

Notes

^ Bosworth 1997, p. 4.
^ "Il pacchetto normativo sugli ammortizzatori sociali in deroga: Modifiche all'articolo 19 del decreto legge 29 novembre 2008, n. 185 ; Integrazioni alla legge 9 aprile 2009, n. 33 ; Modifiche e conversione del decreto legge 1° luglio 2009, n. 78". QT Quaderni di Tecnostruttura (35): 30–48. December 2009. doi:10.3280/qt2009-035006. ISSN 1828-5163.
^ Nicotera, Luisa (January 2015). "I/A. Recenti provvedimenti in materia di turismo / I/B. Decreto-legge 31 maggio 2014, n. 83 (in G.U. - serie generale - n. 125 del 31 maggio 2014)". Rivista Italiana di Diritto del Turismo (11): 209–224. doi:10.3280/dt2014-011009. ISSN 2039-9022.

References

Bosworth, R. J. B. (1997). "Tourist Planning in Fascist Italy and the Limits of a Totalitarian Culture". Contemporary European History. 6 (1). Cambridge University Press: 1–25. doi:10.1017/S0960777300004033. ISSN 1469-2171. JSTOR 20081611. S2CID 154618035.
Taina Syrjäma, Visitez l'Italie : Italian state tourist propaganda abroad 1919-1943: administrative structure and practical realization, 1997 in Turun yliopiston julkaisuja/Annales Universitatis Turkuensis Series B, Humaniora, ISSN 0082-6987, 217. ISBN 951-29-0952-9 (not seen)