The Uvet Group, tourism's pole distribution leader in Italy, has announced its launch of the new website of Uvet USA, www.uvetusa.com.

(TRAVPR.COM) UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - March 4th, 2015 - Milan, 25th February 2015 – Uvet has reached the US market. The tourism’s pole distribution channel, leader in Italy with a turnover of 2.2 billion euro, is extending its sales channels and tools to supply Expo tickets and tourist packages. The Group, led by Luca Patanè, has now uploaded the new website of Uvet USA www.uvetusa.com, its American Company based in Chicago, to distribute Expo services to the US market.

Uvet USA institutional portal, created and developed entirely by Uvet, allows Americans to look for information about products and Group proposals and facilitates the purchase of Expo tickets, flights, room nights, and cultural and tourist packages to visit Italy.

The constitution of an “ad hoc” Company in the USA and the creation of a new website for the sale of Expo packages is related to the Expo project “Made of Italians”, aimed at bringing one million expatriated Italians to visit the Universal Exhibition in Milan. Uvet is distributing more than 600,000 tickets for the Universal Exhibition and has also acquired more than 3,000 rooms each day of the Exhibition involving 200 hotels (3, 4 and 5 stars).

Uvet USA is also partner of “Friends of U.S. Pavilion” and, as Official Destination and Events Partner of the USA Pavilion,  it will exclusively manage the events of the American Pavilion at Expo 2015 and will provide services related to trips and incoming travel and will coordinate the staff engaged in operational services. 

www.uvetusa.com is organized into 5 main sections: “Services”, containing Uvet Group services proposals (accommodation, flights, Expo tickets, events planning, etc); “Partners”, with the list of main Partners of Uvet Group; “Expo Milano 2015”, containing the event description and videos about the progress of the Universal Exposition work site; “Projects”, with the list and description of projects and Uvet Group Companies focused on Expo 2015; “Contact”, with companies' contacts and request forms to obtain more information about Expo tickets and packages.

When browsing uvetusa.com, it will be possible to visit Made in Uvet website, to choose one of the “experience packages” dedicated to design, fashion, lifestyle, wine and food, art and culture. In addition to the Expo tickets, potentional Italy travelers can plan a cruise around the island of Capri, a Ferrari tour, or visit the Colosseum, Duomo di Milano, Basilica di San Marco in Venice and other museums avoiding queues. In addition, it will be possible to choose wine and food tasting tours through Langhe, Franciacorta, Oltrepò Pavese and in other Italian regions.

Uvet USA portal is characterized by a vertical navigation, with news on the homepage to allow for an immediate visualisation of all contents. The website is already optimized to let you browse on a Macintosch, PC, tablet and smartphone with Android or IOS. It has been structured in order to have good indexing with web search engines.

THE UVET GROUP

The Uvet Group (uvet.com) is the tourism’s distribution pole leader in Italy with a turnover of 2,2 billion Euros, active in Italy since 1950. The societies part of the Group are:

 Uvet Viaggi Turismo active since 1950, is the Uvet Group Society with the aim to provide travel services to SMEs and leisure.

Uvet American Express is the leading company in Italy in corporate travel, with a wide range of solutions and services for business travel and meeting, congress and events organization.

The main Business areas are covered by several societies:

- MOBILITY: TKT - Fleet Management | TraxAll - Expenses Management

- LEISURE:   Uvet ITN Travelco – the network with more than 1300 travel agencies associated to the Clubviaggi brand.

- EVENTI:     Congress Lab – the society that support  pharmaceutical companies | HealthCare Labsthe society which operates in the medical and scientific sector | Jakala Events specialized in great training and sports events.

- SERVIZI:   Travel Net Solution a society specialized in the Information & Communication Technology sector

The Group is also located in Europe with:

Uvet Romania – active in the eastern Europe market for the Business Travel outsourcing| Avexia Voyages – leader in France in Business Travel for SMEs | Flygpoolen – one of the main OLTA (online travel agency) in Sweden | Traxall International – leader in service and solution management for the mobility in Europe | Uvet Swiss - active in the Business and Leisure Travel , Congress and Incentive sector.

To receive more information: Mario P. Mazzei, Head of Marketing & Communication of Uvet Group
mario.mazzei@uvetamex.com | marketing@uvetamex.com  Tel:  + 39 02 81 838 212

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