San Marino. Massimo Feruzzi awarded the honor of Sant’Agata
He recognized the consultant of the State Secretariat for Tourism for the efforts to raise European funds
The commitment of Dr. Massimo Ferruzzi from JFC extensionconsultant of the Secretariat of State for Tourism and of the Tourism Office, for the tourism promotion of the Republic of San Marino in international contexts and for the procurement of community funds to be allocated to the key tourism sector, he is recognized by the Republic of San Marino in an audience of their Excellencies the Captains Regent at the end of which the Secretary of State for Tourism Federico Pedini Amati awarded Feruzzi the honor of Sant’Agata.
The Secretariat of State for Tourism gave the news, specifying that Massimo Feruzzi, Sole Director of JFC, has been working as a consultant for marketing and territorial programming and planning in the tourism sector for 25 years. He is researcher and Project Manager Advisor and Destination Manager of private companies and public bodies. He worked as a manager for “Promozione Alberghiera”, “Trademark Italia” and “GH”. He is responsible for National Observatories, including that of Mountain Tourism, Beach Destinations, Wedding Tourism and Tourist Tax, he deals daily with research and socio-economic analysis on tourism for the most prestigious public bodies and for numerous Italian administrations . He has been a freelance journalist since 1995, a member of the Italian Press Federation and the Emilia Romagna Press Association and is a member of the Gist – Italian Tourist Press Group). He has several publications to his credit, has written books and manuals and is the managing director of “Crescita Turismo – Professional Tourism Book”, a highly rated scientific magazine in the tourism sector. He is a consultant and columnist for well-known television programmes, magazines and newspapers. Consultant of the Republic of San Marino since 2018 when he worked on the Strategic Plan for the development of tourism for the five-year period 2018-2022, the three-year Promotion Plan (2018-2020), the Annual Promotion Plan (2019) and for the relaunch of the Tourist Observatory, collaborated in the conception and implementation of the Territorial Tourist Table, a synergistic tourism promotion project involving Italy and San Marino with the Marche and Emilia Romagna Regions and 119 neighboring municipalities.
For the Secretariat of State for Tourism, Dr. Massimo Feruzzi, in collaboration with Dr. Stefano Moroncelli, took care of raising international and EU funds, obtaining, in 2019, the first historic funding from the European Commission for projects in the Republic of San Marino through a tender from the European Travel Commission for the Horizon project which brought a contribution of 190,000 euros to development projects.
On the occasion of today’s hearing both their Excellencies the Captains Regent and the Secretary of State Federico Pedini Amati reaffirmed the importance of the tourism sector for the Republic of San Marino, a sector which, as also reported by the most recent report of the International Monetary Fund, has a decisive and fundamental role in the country’s economy. “To keep the level of tourism in the Republic of San Marino high – explained the Secretary of State Federico Pedini Amati – we need qualified, serious and internationally recognized consultants such as Dr. Feruzzi”.