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national

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. The national Tourist Board is situated in

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History

It was founded in 1919 under the

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- Radical government of

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. Following the transformation ordered by the 2005 regulation, the ENIT-Italian National Tourism Agency took over, with increased and more articulated institutional responsibilities, an almost one-hundred-year activity of the Italian National Tourist Board. In 2014 ENIT was transformed into a public economic body. ENIT is responsible for the promoting

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References

* * Taina Syrjäma, ''Visitez l'Italie : Italian state tourist propaganda abroad 1919-1943: administrative structure and practical realization'', 1997 in ''Turun yliopiston julkaisuja''/''Annales Universitatis Turkuensis'' Series B, Humaniora, , 217. (not seen)

External links

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