10TH EDITION SPORTUR AWARD GOES TO MASSIMO ZANETTI
The 2020 edition of the “Sportur Award: BUSINESS STARS” (Premio Sportur: I PROTAGONISTI D’IMPRESA) has been awarded to Massimo Zanetti, owner of Segafredo Zanetti, and founder of the Massimo Zanetti Beverage Group holding.
Zanetti is a great entrepreneur and fan of sports at all levels. Former president of Bologna Football Club 1909, he is currently owner and majority shareholder of the basketball club Virtus Pallacanestro Bologna, and his company is one of major global sponsors of professional cycling, with the Trek-Segafredo professional road cycling team.
The 2019 edition of the Sportur Award: CHAMPIONS OF ENTERPRISE is awarded to the president of Cairo Communication, the RCS Media Group and Torino FC, URBANO CAIRO.
Urbano Cairo's story is an extraordinary example of one of Italy's most glittering careers, built on his own talent, courage and skill.
The unique thing about Urbano Cairo is his capacity to turn his passions into businesses, proving himself to be a successful entrepreneur, a meticulous leader, a highly insightful publisher and a skilled sports manager.
The 2017 edition of the Sportur Award: CHAMPIONS OF ENTERPRISE is awarded to the president of the Barilla Group and the Fondazione Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition, Guido Barilla.
Founded in 1877, today the group is an international business with a presence in over 100 countries and recognised worldwide as a symbol of Italian savoir-faire.
With the Fondazione Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition, the company takes a major step towards the future and contributes to a world in which food is produced and consumed sustainably, to the benefit of present and future generations.
The 2016 edition of the Sportur Award: CHAMPIONS OF ENTERPRISE is awarded to the founder of Eataly, Oscar Farinetti.
As the world's first supermarket committed to buying and tasting exclusively high-quality Italian foods, Eataly was - and still is - an innovative facet of the food distribution market.
Its creator has become an acknowledged guru for entrepreneurs seeking to develop innovative and successful projects.
6TH EDITION OF THE SPORTUR AWARD: SILVIO BARTOLOTTI
The 2014 edition of the Sportur Award: CHAMPIONS OF ENTERPRISE is awarded to the CEO of Micoperi, Silvio Bartolotti.
A man of enormous tenacity and solid moral principles, Silvio Bartolotti is the founder of the extraordinary business that salvaged the Costa Concordia cruise ship which ran aground off the Isola del Giglio. This operation - the credit for which he shares with his team - took the firm into every home in the world and sent a positive image of Italy to the international audience.
5TH EDITION OF THE SPORTUR AWARD: NERIO ALESSANDRI
The 2011 edition of the Sportur Award: CHAMPIONS OF ENTERPRISE is awarded to the founder and president of Technogym SpA, Nerio Alessandri.
Alessandri founded the company which today is a world leader in fitness products, services and solutions, and which invented the Wellness lifestyle, whose merits, international fame and media presence are established facts.
And there could be no more suitable association than with the ambitious sports and tourism project promoted for some time by Sportur patron Claudio Fantini.
1st FORUM: CYCLING & MAJOR EVENTS AS A TOURIST RESOURCE
Great success for the 1st edition of Forum involving many big names in the world of sport and tourism
Cervia, 15th October 2020
On occasion of the three Romagna stages of the Giro d’Italia 2020, in October 2020, Sportur Travel collaborated with the Emilia-Romagna Region to organize the Emilia-Romagna Bike Week, a series of initiatives dedicated to the cycling world, whose key event, hosted by the Fantini Club, was the first edition of Forum, entitled “Cycling and Major Events as a Tourist Resource”. The highly successful event, chaired by journalist Lorenzo Dallari, saw ten illustrious guests discuss the theme of cycling as a tourist resource. Renato Di Rocco, president of the Italian cycling federation, Federciclismo, spoke for the first time in Cervia, underlining how the cycling world has now permeated through to all ages and social groups, “becoming ever more about wellness and lifestyle”. Giammaria Manghi, Secretariat President of the Emilia-Romagna Region, talked of the importance of the great combination of sport and tourism, highlighting the enormous influence of great past and future events, from the cycling world championship to Ironman, which, unfortunately, had to be postponed this year. The huge commitment of the Emilia-Romagna Region to promote sports tourism was also reiterated by Andrea Corsini, Regional Councillor for Mobility and Transport, Infrastructure, Tourism and Commerce. Paolo Bellino, CEO and General Manager of RCS Sport, also contributed to the Forum, underlining the fantastic numbers relating to the Giro d’Italia as “the best promotional platform in Italy today, with the aim of 120 million page views for the site”.
Among the other big names attending the event were Davide Cassani, head coach of the Italian National Cycling Team and President of APT Servizi Emilia Romagna, Massimo Medri, Mayor of Cervia, Stefano Rossetti, Deputy General Manager of bank group BPER Banca, Paolo Savoldelli, former professional cyclist, and Claudio Fantini, of Fantini Club and Sportur Travel..
4TH EDITION OF THE SPORTUR AWARD: GABRIELE DEL TORCHIO
The 2010 edition of the Sportur Award: CHAMPIONS OF ENTERPRISE is awarded to the president and managing director of Ducati Motor Holding SpA, Gabriele del Torchio.
3RD EDITION OF THE SPORTUR AWARD: ANTONIO PATUELLI
The 2009 edition of the Sportur Award: CHAMPIONS OF ENTERPRISE is awarded to the president of the Italian Banking Association and the Cassa di Ravenna SpA, Antonio Patuelli.
LARGE-SCALE EVENTS, HOSPITALITY AND SEASONAL ADJUSTMENT.
The third edition of the forum brought together prominent guests such as Dan Peterson, regional president Stefano Bonaccini and Olympic champion Antonio Rossi.
INSTALLATIONS AND LARGE EVENTS AS THE FUTURE OF SPORTS TOURISM
The second edition of Lo Sport Fa Viaggiare brought together prominent guests such as Walter Veltroni, regional president Stefano Bonaccini and minister for Sport Luca Lotti.
Great success for the first edition of Lo Sport Fa Viaggiare, which brought together prominent guests such as Evelina Christillin (president of Enit) and Giovanni Malagò (national president of CONI), as well as Emilia-Romagna regional president Stefano Bonaccini and sports ambassadors Maurizia Cacciatori and Billy Costacurta.