Future Developments of Engedras Tour Operator

Engedras Tour Operator, owner of web and tourist portals www.sardegne.com and www.siciliae.com, was born in 2005. It's based on the idea that the best way to plan an holiday is not to book our holiday in a wide portal like Expedia but in an more specilized web site. A destination portal where you can find all offer about a place together with the touristic information to know the beauties of the area. This fact together with the possibility to call for advice is the plus of our offers compared with the more general travel portal.

Engedras has just finished the third full tourist season and has become an important reality in the tourist panorama of Sardinia.

The Sardegne.com group, which at the beginning had 3 employees, employs at present 18 people between employees (14, including 11 women) and colleagues (4), with a firm preponderance of women (75%).

The multiligual booking and the technical and marketing areas are the most populated with an average age of 30 years and only one person with no Sardinian origin.

The 2008 figures are quite interesting: 1,000,000 visitors expected in the portal www.sardegne.com in the year 2008, and 200,000 visitors expected in the portal www.siciliae.com in the year 2008, and a decuplicated turnover in three years.

The Engedras proposal covers all types of facilities throughout Sardinia and Sicily in addition to additional tourist services (ferries, airplanes, transfers, excursions by sea, land etc). Holiday villages, hotels, popular hotels, residences, farm houses, bed and breakfast and a wide range of holiday homes in Sardinia, luxury, with pool, by the sea or hinterland, to satisfy any possible idea of vacation and plan it in a better way.

The Sardinia portal (www.sardegne.com) offers the possibility of finding interesting insights on everything that concerns the sardinian island itself: environment, archeology and history, architecture and museums, crafts, towns and villages, food and wine, sea, rivers and lakes, sports, traditions. A wide section, constantly updated, is dedicated to events such as folk festivals, sacred festivals and many other events. There are also useful information such as weather, transport, FAQ among other interesting things.

The Sicilian (www.siciliae.com) portal will soon be enriched with new useful information to design the holidays in sicily in the best way.

In Sardinia in 2008 the booking section has sold holidays in 470 different accommodation facilities involving 100 municipalities, coastal or in the hinterland.

More moderate data from Sicily, with 64 facilities in 32 Sicilian municipalities. In the present tourist season the business model successfully applied in Sardinia has been replicated for the holidays in Sicily with the portal www.siciliae.com.

In the tourist season 2009 it will also be replicated in Puglia (www.pugliae.com). The medium term objective of the Tour Operator is to become one of the specialized landmarks for different tourist destinations in Italy on the Internet.

These portals will have in the 2009 a specific associate portal with a luxury segment, only for Sardinia, in which to the traditional languages Italian, English, French and Spanish, will be added the Russian.