Hospitality as a language: words and gestures for inhabiting places with respect

Odissey, Destinations, DMC, Insights, Tour Operators

Before every journey, there exists a small, original vocabulary. It is not a formal dictionary, but a set of sign-words that orient the gaze and define the way we approach the world. Words such as welcome, liminality, intimacy, otherness, gratitude, rhythm, threshold, memory, presence, and reciprocity. It is these words that define a grammar of…

Argentina, an experience you move through: vision, identity, and new trajectories of global tourism

Beyond Borders, Destinations, Odissey, Tour Operators

Odissey Magazine interviews Ambassador Marcello Giusto and the authorities of the National Tourism Institute of Argentina InproTur. The meeting takes place at a key moment for the country’s international positioning, as Argentina seeks to consolidate its image as a diversified, innovative, and authentic destination, capable of attracting travelers from all over the world thanks to…

Cities to Discover: When Small Capitals Become Cultural Bridges Between Europe, the Mediterranean, and the World

Air Transport, Destinations, DMC, Odissey, Tour Operators

There are cities that do not exist solely within their own geographies. Cities in which the perimeter does not define boundaries, but merely a point of departure. Urban spaces that cannot be explained by a map, because their identity moves along invisible routes, crossing histories, populations, cultural systems, and collective memories. These are bridge cities:…

Argentina Travel Experience: A Continent Within a Nation to Be Lived All Year Round

Destinations, DMC, Odissey, Tour Operators

Argentina travel experience is not simply about visiting a destination, but about crossing a living narrative that unfolds across landscapes, cultures and emotions. Argentina is a continent within a nation, capable of offering transformative journeys throughout the entire year, from the icy silence of Patagonia to the vibrant rhythm of Buenos Aires. There are countries…

Regenerative Tourism Destinations: Five Countries Redefining Authentic Travel for Italian Travellers

Regenerative Tourism Destinations: Five Countries Redefining Authentic Travel for Italian Travellers

Destinations, DMC, Insights, Odissey

Imagine a rainforest covering much of the country, a transparent and wild Pacific coast, local communities welcoming visitors with a sense of hospitality but also of stewardship, and a tourism system that does not “consume” the territory but regenerates it. This is the vision that Costa Rica has pursued, with great consistency and with results…

Serious experienced carpenter standing at workbench and checking finished wooden item

Craftmanship as a living archive: learning with the hands, understanding with the heart

Destinations, DMC, Odissey

Craft tourism and living craftsmanship reveal how handmade traditions become powerful tools for cultural transmission and authentic travel experiences. Craftsmanship is never an isolated fragment of culture: it is the material biography of a people. Every weave, every pigment, every incision contains a system of values, a symbolic order, a way of reading the world.…