Italy is the dream destination for luxury canaries

Celebrity weddings in that country feed a real industry.

 

Rome-. George Clooney, Sofia Coppola and Tom Cruise have been the best ambassadors: Italy has become the first European destination for couples who want to marry outside their country of origin and the second in the world behind the "tropical paradises" ( Hawaii and other islands).

Italy, especially Tuscany, the Amalfi Coast and Venice, have become a favorite for couples who want to celebrate their wedding abroad, according to a report released yesterday by the Observatory on marriages abroad destinations.

British couples are most choose this destination to celebrate their nuptials (25%), followed by Americans and Canadians (15.4%), Russian (9.6%), Japanese (7.8%) , Australian (5.2%), Saudi (6.3%) and Chinese (4.6%).

The favorite destinations are Tuscany (43%), the Amalfi coast (38%), Umbria (8%), Venice and alpine lakes (6%).

For this Observatory, the "marriage tourism" represents an important source of income: in 2015, the turnover of this sector exceeded in Italy 400 million euros (vs. 350 million in 2014), or "about double the registered two years ago".

The average cost of a wedding is 50,000 euros (about $ 55,000) for a duration of three and a half days.

George Clooney, Sofia Coppola and Tom Cruise are foreign ambassadors from Italy because they were the country to throw the house out the window at their weddings(formal dresses australia).

In addition, it is a factor of "loyalty" of tourists, since 90% of couples who chose Italy for their honeymoon return to celebrate their wedding anniversaries.

"Italy, as a wedding destination, has enormous potential, and stars like Sofia Coppola, George Clooney, Tom Cruise and Petra Ecclestone were not wrong in choosing to get married here," said Suita Carrano, coordinator of the Observatory.

"It is a booming sector, as shown by the figures," adds Carrano, which calls on the authorities "to help companies in the sector to grow, as they do with other companies."

One of the weddings that aroused more interest in the world of showbiz world was to Clooney. Your link to the lawyer Amal Clooney was held in Venice in September last year, in a private ceremony at a luxury resort in Venice.

The site chosen was the Aman Canal Grande, a luxury Venetian resort. The manager of officiating the ceremony was Walter Veltroni, former mayor of Rome and a close friend of the couple. And chosen to create the dress of the bride has been Oscar de la Renta, who has given life to a trapezoidal design with boat neck line and covered in French lace embroidery in India.

Out to show the most tempting places

Italy, Weddings in Costa event was held yesterday in Rome to Costa, which was attended by some of the most important international planners weddings.

Planners visited some of the most famous towns of Amalfi Coast and Cilento, from Ravello to Santa Maria di Castellabate, Scala Furore to promote luxury weddings.