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The first platform for online booking of boat charters for travel agents is born in Tuscany. Behind this operation is Kiriacoulis Holiday, a Tuscan tour operator that deals with boat charters. This is a breakthrough in the boat charter market hitherto excluded from travel agencies, which are legally the entities responsible for selling this type of vacation. There are, it is true, boat charter platforms, but Kiriacoulis's is the first to comply with the tourism code, has the Astoi forms, of which Kiriacoulis holidays is a member.

To enter the network immediately are the GEO Wellcome travel group agencies, which number about 2500, of which about 10% are in Tuscany. If only 10% of these developed 4 rentals per year, we would have 1,000 rentals with a turnover of about 7,000,000.

To date, it involves 450 vessels, including 200 from Tuscany

"The platform will be accessible with direct connection to all agencies especially foreign ones. To date there are about 450 boats, after the fall and winter fairs there should be about 1,500, of which 200 in the Tuscan archipelago." explains Luciano Rigli, administrator of Kiriacoulis Holiday.

"We want to be an instrument for the development of nautical tourism," Rigli says further, "thanks to the fact that this niche market is included in travel agencies. The nautical charter is a flywheel of the coastal economy, suffering from the problem of berths, where charter companies are in precariousness. The expansion of the Punta ala harbor and the new Chiusa marina in Piombino should begin to bring a modicum of stability to the sector, the platform generate new tourist flows. The Kiriacoulis group is also moving to train travel agents."