ItalianConnections.net: With 5,000+ Global Media Members, It’s the #1 Social Network

ROME, ITALY, JANUARY 25, 2011 – If you’re on the Italy beat as a destination for travel, food, wine or lifestyle, there is now a hub for you online: ItalianConnections.net, a recently launched portal that features a community, a social network and an online pressroom, allowing easy communication between Italian travel and tourism operators and the global media who cover Italy.
Created by IMAGINE Communication, an international communication, marketing and training company headquartered in Rome, Italian Connections offers a dynamic and interactive platform that lets members create personal pages, upload photos and videos, share content, post comments and interact with other users in forums.
For media interested in Italy, Italian Connections is a virtual meeting point to participate in a dialogue on Italian travel and tourism and gain direct access to press releases, videos, images and news, published in the online Press Room. So far, 5,000+ journalists from 22 countries have registered.
“Italian Connections wants to elevate and energize the dialogue between the travel and tourism industry in Italy and the international media community,” says Marco Ferrari, Chairman and CEO of IMAGINE Communication.
Recently, IMAGINE Communication partnered with San Francisco-based Burditch Marketing Communications (BMC) to each enhance their global reach. “We know there is great interest in Italy by the U.S. market – according to a new Harris poll, Americans aspire to vacation in Italy more than any other destination,” says Paul Burditch, President of BMC. “We hope to make Italian Connections the number one resource for American media covering Italy.”
Amongst IMAGINE Communication’s clients are brands like the Hassler Roma, Baglioni Hotels and Resorts, l’Albergo della Regina Isabella Resort and Spa in Ischia, Le Grande Hotel Cour Maison in Courmayeur, l’Orto Degli Angeli in Bevagna, Palace Hotel Bari, the MOVE Hotel in Mogliano Veneto nearby Venice, Park Hotel Faloria in Cortina, Regina Hotel Baglioni Roma, Romeo Hotel in Naples, the Sofitel Rome Villa Borghese and Pasta Amato.
BMC represents the highest-quality luxury brands in the fields of hospitality, tourism, travel, culinary arts and viticulture since the company’s inception in 2000. BMC’s experience on four continents includes representation of some of the world’s top hotels and destinations. These include Four Seasons, Ritz Carlton, Rosewood, Orient Express, as well as leading independent properties that are part of Preferred Hotels and Relais & Chateau. BMC’s current clients include The Stags Leap District Winegrowers Association (Napa Valley); Signorello Estate (Napa Valley); Cindy Pawlcyn’s Napa Valley (Mustards Grill, GO FISH, and Cindy’s Backstreet Kitchen restaurants); The Allison Inn & Spa (Willamette Valley, OR); The Hermosa Inn (Paradise Valley, AZ); Starwood Hotels (St. Regis, Westin, W, Sheraton, Luxury Collection) in Italy and the Central Mediterranean.
To register on Italian Connections, please visit: http://italianconnections.net/register.

Contact:
Amy Logan, Senior Account Director
Burditch Marketing Communications
415-874-9696
amy@burditchmc.com

IMAGINE Communication,
Via G. Barzellotti, 9b – 00136 Rome – Italy
Tel. +39 06 39750290 – info@imaginecommunication.eu
www.imaginecommunication.eu | Italianconnections.net

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