Compagnia Italiana Turismo

CIT, the Compagnia Italiana Turismo, was an Italian travel agency and tourism promotion quango, privatized in 1996.

It was established by royal charter in 1927 as the Fascist tourist promotion agency, in contrast to the Liberal ENIT and the bourgeois Touring Club Italiano. Its first president was Ezio Maria Gray, an enthusiastic Fascist and corporatist.^[1]

Its goal was to promote Italy as an international tourist destination and to support Italian foreign tourism. To do this, it created a network of travel agencies in Italy and world-wide. Its founding members were the Ferrovie dello Stato, the Banco di Sicilia, the Banco di Napoli, and ENIT (the Italian national tourist board).

References

• Bosworth, R. J. B. (1997). "Tourist Planning in Fascist Italy and the Limits of a Totalitarian Culture". Contemporary European History (Cambridge University Press) 6 (1): 1–25. ISSN 1469-2171. JSTOR 20081611 – via JSTOR. (registration required (help)).
• 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)

Notes

1. Bosworth, passim