Rome, 17 January 2018. 2018 has just started and Italo is already launching something great!
Sales have already begun. Starting from 1 May, Italo will bring its passengers on the Turin – Milan – Venice line that will connect all North-East Italy in little over 3 hours. To celebrate with its passengers the opening of the ticket sales, Italo has launched a dedicated offer with tickets at 9.90€ on some of these lines.
The many passengers, who every day travel around this area – one of Italy’s most productive areas – will have the opportunity to travel comfortably on an Italo EVO train – the latest and most modern train in Europe!
The three regions involved produce almost 40% of Italy’s GDP and the demand for trains in terms of passengers-kilometres on the Turin-Milan-Venice line is of about 2 billion. This is one of the lines with the greatest potentials in Italy (data by TRA consulting).
The opening of this line will allow Italo to introduce new connections into its network: indeed, the Turin – Milan – Venice line will foresee also stops in Brescia, Desenzano (service starting in June 2018), Peschiera del Garda, Verona, Vicenza, Padua and Mestre. Italo will take its passengers into the heart of all these towns.
In this way, we will connect towns already served by Italo, such as Milan and Venice – one of our most popular lines both for business and leisure travellers. In less than 2.5 hours, passengers will travel in the best possible comfort between the two towns. This will allow the many business travellers to move between Milan and Venice; the same will go for tourists visiting first our fashion capital to then see Venice, a unique city.
In this way, Italo will connect its Naples – Turin service to its Turin – Venice line: passengers leaving from Verona now can go to Florence or Rome as well as to Venice or Milan. This means that Italo’s network – that covers 71% of Italy’s population – can now link the two lines, thus link all Italy, offer passengers new travelling opportunities and open new interesting market scenarios.
The arrival of Italo on this line will reinforce our current connections, such as the one between Milan and Turin. The current 18 daily services will become 26, guaranteeing service coverage practically at all hours.
On top of this, there will be new entries such as Desenzano, Peschiera del Garda and Vicenza. Apart from making local and business passengers travel more easily, Italo trains will be available also to tourists visiting these areas, allowing them to see Desenzano’s Duomo and Castle, as well its Roman site; Frassino Lake in Peschiera - inserted by the EU among the Sites of Community Importance, SCI - the Cathedral of Santa Maria Annunciata or Saint Fortunatus and Saint Felix Cathedral in Vicenza – a UNESCO world heritage site thanks to the works of Andrea Palladio.
Starting form 1 May, there will be 6 daily services that will then increase in the following months to become 14 services a day as of 1 July 2018.
In this way, Italo will fulfil the needs of an area with great demand and offer a new comfortable travel solution to those travelling around North-East Italy, who now have to use their car to move around the different sites of this area. Just think that if you leave from Milano Centrale, you can reach Brescia in just 37 minutes, Verona in 1 hour and 14 minutes or Venice Santa Lucia in 2 hours and 25 minutes.
“The opening of the new lines in North-East Italy makes us really proud as our Italo EVO – a wonderful train, extremely modern, technological and made in Italy – will allows us – thanks to our strong development strategy – to serve a part of Italy that is growing fast not only for what concerns business travellers, but also in terms of tourists. Italo passengers travelling on our Naples- Turin line will now be connected also to this area” said Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, Chairman of Italo.
