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Air of change and expansion for the small aereoporto of frontier. Also the cities limitrofe as Como will be able to benefit some. In fact the ticinese company Darwin Airline has yielded 33% of just the share package to the Etihad Airways, company between the more important of the world of flag of the Emirati Arabic. For Darwin and the port of call of Lugano draft of an operation from the nearly only value.
Therefore as yesterday confirmed to Lugano in a press conference, the company center remain in the city sottocenerina even if the brand Darwin it will be replaced from the new Etihad Regional.
According to the president of Darwin, Emilio Martinenghi, “the new partnership is a result that can be stimulus for all”.
The general executive manager of the ticinese company, Maurizo Merlon, has instead spoken about “historical moment”. To not twisted, perhaps, if it is believed that the arrival of the Arabs will carry in the short term of 21 new at the opening drawn and 16 destinations. The director trades them of Etihad Airways, Peter Baumgartner, has cleared the reason that has carried to the new partnership: “We head at societies that have already created one they net, they market, instead of having to us to introduce in markets already constructed. From the next june we will launch a flight directed from and for Zurigo. Creating Etihad Regional, Darwin will increase the prestige of Etihad. “

Flying the values of luxury real estate market in major cities of the world.
Limited supply, strong demand from international buyers and increased appreciation of individuals from the top asset class offerings: would these factors that have pushed prices of luxury homes to historic highs. This was revealed in a report by Christie’s International Real Estate in a new study on the global market of luxury residences.
Financial markets provide a limited investment yield, as well, who owns huge capital, begins to recognize the value of investing in consumer goods, like luxury real estate and works of art. The index classifies markets through key metrics, including the records of sale price, the prices per square metre, the percentage of non-local and international buyers, and the number of luxury items in relation to the population.
The research highlights the following points:-at the global level, high-level properties for sale have reached record prices in different cities, staying so immune to economic problems afflicting the housing market;
-wealthy buyers are often more inclined to invest in a major worldwide market rather than in another city in their country of origin for the purchase of additional properties;
-residential real estate listings follow the growing trend of luxury goods consumer, not as works of art rather than the upward trend in the housing market in General.
The luxury real estate market is experiencing this time due to the scarcity of supply of high quality properties and increasing instead of demand from international buyers in many of the most important cities in the world.
The two cities at the top of the list are London and New York, with selling prices respectively to 121 million and 88 million, they recorded the record this year for the highest prices of luxury estates. As a destination, the Côte d’Azur has recorded the highest percentage of second home buyers (95%), as well as international buyers (90%).

The charm of “Made in Italy” legend has it that do not die ever and they are all the same. Words, of course. Or legends, if you want to give a touch of mystery. The fact remains, however, that the increasingly powerful Chinese have a weak – or rather, a very weak – the beauty and the classic status-symbol tricolori. And comaschi, of course.
The last case that testifies in a blatant dates back to the last Sunday in July. That is, when a delegation of Chinese, including powerful industrialists, bankers and politicians of the Sichuan region – the region in a manner of speaking, with 87 million inhabitants – has made a stop in Como for a business trip. A short passage in Como, with a visit to a company of the city of industrial-pharmaceutical branch. For discretion, we will not name of company – the world leader in its sector – but we can reveal some detail of what a group of powerful Chinese businessmen ask (politely and usually) host entrepreneurs to enjoy the true taste of the journey.
Unable to resist the temptation to climb aboard a Ferrari, for example, while probably none so more than one apiece. But would you put a Ferrari vista, tried and shot in Italy, compared to one in China?
Second request inevitable: a speedboat trip on the Lake. Live postcard. With explicit wish: to see the villas, certainly, but above all: l’oleandra of Laglio, and this testifies to how much and how far the promotional power of George Clooney.
Third and confirmed the Group’s China request: have lunch at Villa d’Este, sit at the table of one of the world’s most famous hotels. Then celebrate the exhilaration of traveling on the Lake with the most prestigious wines and great dishes. Only with a small variation: the watered of tabasco, on everything. De gustibus.

The charm of Lake Como knows no bounds. And so it happens that people who drove for 33 years, and Yemen risked big during the “Arab spring”, now a golden exile dreams on the Lario.
Is Ali Abdullah Saleh, President of Yemen, but still powerful enough to suppress the revolt and barter his “down” from the throne with immunity.
Saleh was seriously injured during an assault on his headquarters in Sana’a on 3 June 2011. He had been hospitalized in Saudi Arabia and worked in a military hospital while being initiated procedures for the transfer of powers to former Vice-President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi.
Now the former Yemeni President Saleh might choose a quiet convalescence right on Lake Como. Why the Lario? Because Saleh has already been on the Lake for a short trip during which he met, away from prying eyes, the former Saudi defence minister Sultan bin Abdulaziz. The news was reported in recent days by the newspaper “La Repubblica”, while the news of his impending departure were launched by the news agencies Associated Press and France Presse.
The former strong man of the State at the southern tip of the Arabian peninsula had gotten in recent days also a visa from Italy for medical care. Medical care or Golden exile? The news has bounced immediately Arab newspapers. Rome, in fact, had accepted the request for asylum immediately, unlike other Western countries.
Saleh’s family but of the lifespan for a tenure of Ali Abdullah in Saudi Arabia. And this is not any family, since his son was, until a few months ago, the Commander of the presidential guard, his half-brother commands the armed forces and the clan of Yemeni Saleh is still the most powerful in the country.
The clan of Saleh feared that, during his stay on Lake Como, the former President could be indicted for human rights violations during the revolt of 2011. The game is still open. The arrival of Arabic in Italy could also mean great deals for the national economy. Italian companies would in fact participate in the creation of new water desanilizzazione plants that in the future the Yemen never thirst again.

From the world towards Lake Como among the ten favorite provinces arriving from abroad to the art cities and the Lakes even before beaches. These are the engines that move every year millions of foreign tourists to the beautiful country. And thanks to the presence of one of these powerful and effective poles of attraction, province of Como, which boasts one of the Lakes favoured by foreign vacationers, enters the title in the top ten of the Italian provinces that enjoy more of the beneficial influx of foreigners.
The survey, which analyzed the flow of foreign tourists into Italy, taking into account two years, 2008 and 2012, has also compiled the ranking of the ten provinces that attract the largest number of foreigners and that most other benefit from money spent by foreign tourists in hotels, restaurants, bars, shops and so on.
In both rankings Como stands out thanks to its Lake has indeed earned positions between 2008 and 2012, rising from 9° to 7° place regarding the number of foreign tourists who stay in our province.
The 2012 has been a record year in terms of foreign travelers ‘ spending, up from 644 million euro of 2008 to 655 million last year, after losing ground in 2009 (588 million) and especially in 2010 (525 million). So much so that the last annual report on the State of the economy lariana drawn up by the Chamber of Commerce says that in 2012 the spending of foreign travelers in the province of Como, reached its historical maximum to 655 million euros (+4% compared to the previous year) by retrieving the levels of 2008. ”
It’s a real treasure that each year it rains on the Lario thanks to foreigners and that closer to reality than Como emblazoned like Rome, Milan, Venice and Florence. Provinces in the top ten charts drawn up by researchers of Confesercenti-Ref, in which appear Varese, Brescia and Verona, territories that, similarly to How beneficial can count on the presence of a Lake, be it major or the Garda.
As regards the province of Como, foreign tourists during the 2012 stay on the shores of the Lake were over 700 thousand (out of a total of 1,046,603 tourists arrived in the Cove), with an increase of 2.5% from the previous year, for a total of almost 2 million attendance days or nights spent in accommodation Lake Como, from hotels to farmhouse.