Touring Club Italiano

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Headquarters of the Touring Club Italiano in Milan
Monthly magazine of the TCI from 1920
Signpost and sign of the TCI in Casteldelfino (created before 1923)

The Touring Club Italiano (TCI) is an association founded in 1894 that deals with the interests of Italian tourism . The Touring Club Italiano is based in Milan in the Palazzo Touring Club Italiano , also called Palazzo Bertarelli (Corso Italia 10), built by Achille Binda in 1915 .

history

Historical city map of the TCI of Milan in 1914

The club was founded on November 8, 1894 by Luigi Vittorio Bertarelli (1859-1926, from 1906 Vice President and from 1919 President), Federico Johnson and another fifty-five people as a cycling association under the name Touring Club Ciclistico Italiano (TCCI), which was then new to make the emerging bicycle better known. A year after it was founded, the association published its first travel guide and made initial suggestions for bike paths . In 1900 the club was renamed Touring Club Italiano (TCI). During the years of Italian fascism , the association had to rename its English-sounding name to the Italianized form Consociazione Turistica Italiana (CTI) . The association is known for its precise cartography and its printed products on thin printing paper .

Publications

Monthly magazines

  • Guida d'Italia TCI , since 1914.
  • Le Vie d'Italia , published from 1917 to 1968.
  • Le Vie d'Italia e dell'America Latina , extension of the Vie d'Italia, from 1924 to 1933.
  • Le Vie d'Italia e del Mondo , successor to the Vie d'Italia e dell'America Latina, from 1933 to 1936.
  • Le Vie del Mondo , extension of Le Vie d'Italia e del Mondo, from 1937 to 1943 and from 1950 to 1967.
  • Vie d'Italia e del Mondo , successor to Vie del Mondo, from 1968 to 1970.
  • Vie del Mondo , successor to Vie d'Italia e del Mondo, from 1987 to 1992.
  • Alisei , successor to Vie del Mondo , since 1992
  • QuiTouring , member magazine , since 1971

Travel guide (selection)

  • Guida d'Italia TCI , since 1914
  • Le Guide Rosse (the red travel guide), in a compact, bound, thin print edition, with detailed cultural and historical information.
  • Le Guide Verdi (the green travel guide), since the 1980s.
  • Le Guide Oro (the golden travel guides), visualized travel guides.
  • Le Guide Gialle (the yellow travel guides), text-only travel guides.

Atlases

  • Atlante Internazionale del Touring Club Italiano , since 1927

Award of quality seals

Since 1998 the TCI has awarded the Bandiera Arancione (in German: Orange Flag) a quality seal in the field of tourism and the environment, which the association awards to small communities (maximum population: 15,000) in the Italian hinterland. The excellent localities stand out due to their outstanding cityscapes and an excellent tourism infrastructure. The Orange Flag is the only Italian project recognized by the World Tourism Organization as a successful program to promote development in the field of tourism.

Web links

Commons : Touring Club Italiano  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lombardia Beni Culturali website , accessed on March 7, 2013 (Italian).
  2. ^ Luigi Vittorio Bertarelli in the Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani , Volume 9, author Gian Paolo Nitti (1967), accessed on March 7, 2013 (Italian).
  3. ↑ Touring.it on the founding history , accessed on March 7, 2013 (Italian).