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I Love IT – Fair brings quality Italian products to Prague
Vienna-Prague-Turin, September 2013 – From 3 to 5 October 2013, the I Love IT fair invites visitors to discover and sample top Italian products at the Diplomat Hotel Prague. Exhibitors include 80 Italian small and medium-sized enterprises, which will inspire Prague's audience with upscale Italian Lifestyle. In charge of the culinary highlight, a five-course gala dinner on 3 October 2013, is a team that includes two Michelin-awarded Italian chefs.
From the latest fashion trends to exquisite culinary delicacies or select wines – Italian products have a reputation of offering quality and trend-setting innovations. From 3 to 5 October 2013, visitors of the I Love IT fair at the Diplomat Hotel in the 6th district of Prague will have a chance to embark on a short journey to discover the Italian way of life. For the first time ever, 80 Italian artisan enterprises will present their products in the Czech capital at an event sponsored by the Italian embassy. The invited exhibitors are exclusive producers of upscale goods of best quality. The three-day event gives visitors the unique opportunity to personally meet with producers, locate new market niches, make new business contacts and establish trade relations. The range of activities at the I Love IT fair includes fashion shows, wine and olive oil tasting, and cooking shows with award-winning chefs.
The first day is reserved for professional visitors – restaurant owners, wholesalers, retailers and shop owners. On the following two days, the fair is also open to the general public. Visitors can sample the goods and buy them straight from the source!
Gala Dinner “Benvenuto” on 3 October 2013
The five-course “Benvenuto” gala dinner on 3 October 2013 in the ballroom of the Diplomat Hotel Prague is the high point of this delicious event. In charge of the evening’s culinary perfection will be the Italian Michelin-awarded chefs Federico Delmonte and Errico Recanati (both two stars) together with Riccardo Lucque, one of Prague’s most famous restaurant operators, and Vladimír Kovařič, executive chef of the 4-star Diplomat Hotel. Also taking part will be top Czech chefs Radek Hasman (The Aromi) and Tomáš Černý (La Finestra). Guests will be able to view a live broadcast from the kitchen.
About I Love IT
I Love IT was founded by the National Confederation of Artisans in Italy (CNA) to promote Italian arts and crafts and to introduce consumers to the concept of slow food, slow wine and slow fashion. The focus is on maintaining traditional and regional products with an emphasis on their origins, and to help consumers understand the hard work that goes into the production.
More information about the I Love IT fair at the Diplomat Hotel Prague is available at www.vi-hotels.com/i-love-it and on www.iloveitartigianato.it; on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ILoveITevent
Diplomat Hotel Prague
The 4-star Diplomat Hotel Prague is a member of the hotel group Vienna International Hotels and Resorts. Its 398 rooms and suites as well as the spacious conference centre make it one of the most popular venues for conferences in the Czech capital. The hotel features a spacious wellness area on the 9th floor from which guests can enjoy sensational views of Prague Castle. The culinary spectrum includes the restaurants Loreta, CD Restaurant and Katsura, which serves the best sushi in town. The hotel café Klimt is famous for its specialty coffees as well as its sweet and savoury delicacies. More information is available at www.vi-hotels.com/diplomat/
Vienna International Hotelmanagement AG
Vienna International Hotelmanagement AG was founded in 1989. On the basis of individual management contracts, Vienna International operates and is developing a total of 32 first-class hotels & resorts and one hotel project. The portfolio, which includes one Leading Hotel of the World, comprises city, resort, spa and conference hotels. The hotels are located in nine European countries: Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland, Croatia, France, Germany, Romania, Slovakia and Russia. In addition to holiday and leisure products internationally, e.g. in Loipersdorf, Salzburg, Carlsbad and Opatija, the focus of the destinations is on business centres such as Salzburg, Munich, Berlin, Paris, Prague, Cracow, Łódź, Bucharest, and Ekaterinburg.
The group currently employs a total of about 2.500 people. More information about VI as well as image material is available online at www.vi-hotels.com (Press).
CNA Turin - From 1946 to 2013, 67 years of work
The strength of a large Entrepreneurial Association resides in its numbers. CNA Turin is the largest representative association of artisans, and small-medium scale companies in the Turin area and one of the most important in Italy. There are already 13.500 members in the Turin area, more than 40 thousand in the Piedmont region and 650 thousand in Italy. Since 1946, year of its foundation, CNA works close to artisans, small-scale manufacturing industries, trading companies, tourism industries, service companies and new self-employed workers, by representing their needs before institutions, public administrations and unions and for promotion the italian product in the world. I Love IT and Slow fashion are trade mark of property of CNA Turin: the first is born for the celebration of the 150° anniversary of the united Italy in 2011 and the second for safeguard italian manufactories.
Vienna International Hotels & Resorts
Mag. (FH) Sabine Hackl
Head of Corporate Communications
Dresdner Straße 87, 1200 Vienna
Tel. +43 1 333 73 73 – 65
CNA Turin
Vitaliano Alessio Stefanoni
