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"Dear friends of Bluestone, hereby we would like to thank you for the support and for all efforts made in order to harmonize the development of the incentive trip for our customers in Sicily.
We know it isn't easy to satisfy demanding customers but you did. Your quality services, your availability and professionalism have assured our customers only the best, from hotel accommodation, to transports, to excursions and team building, to the choice of the historical dwellings in which carrying out the dinners, always cured and refined in menus and décor. The trip has been a success, and it is a pleasure to know that, in Sicily, we now have a reliable partner, available and customer-oriented. We are looking forward to organize our next incentive trip in Sicily! "
Antonio Pastor
Carlson Wagonlit Travel
Director Business Travel Center
With our long experience in the branch of Incentive travel and special events and thanks to our long standing relationship with top industry suppliers, at BlueStone Tourism Services we are aware of the difference between an ordinary group tour and an Incentive tour. From small groups to a large number of participants, BlueStone Tourism Services has specific professional skills in organizing incentive travel programs at all levels, operating in the best possible way to reach the goals that have been set. We are able to offer a wide range of solutions like: selection of luxury accommodation facilities in attractive places with great historic and folkloristic interest like Taormina, Palermo and Catania; the efficient organizing of each and every detail; customizing the event by arranging entertainments, excursions, team building programs, private cruises, themed gala dinners in luxury villas and historical buildings, special transportation, personalized gifts and much more.
An example of a successful program: The Godfather Mafia Program
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We guarantee a personal approach and a unique experience to ensure that your event and incentive experience is a success. This is just an example of event realized or realizable, based on the topic of the Godfather, favourite among many of those that choose Sicily to be their destination. Obviously, we can realize several incentive programs, highly customized according to your theme, such as: an event with the theme of photography, or history, or automobile... you will give us the input, we shall supply solutions.
Day 1 - The arrival in Sicily: Welcome from the Godfather's men.
At our arrival, we will be welcomed by the picciotti (the Godfather's men), than they will escort us to the hotel where, after check-in, the Godfather himself will be waiting for us, for a welcome cocktail. In our room we will find the coppola, the typical cap of Mafiosi of the past, to be personalized with the logo of the company promoting the incentive, if requested.
During cocktail, the Godfather, accompanied by his faithful butler/translator/killer, will explain us the reason of his invitation: there are big news for the families! New possibilities, new goals, new tasks. We will be split in families, and we will have to achieve some primary and some secondary results, before the end of our journey... After the cocktail, we will move to a prestigious historical villa, a refined and exclusive atmosphere, pampered by a high-quality menu and an excellent choice of wines, with an attentive staff, always ready to serve you. Musicians with historical instruments will accompany us with tact during the supper. We will return to the hotel for a night of deserved rest: we've got many experiences waiting for us.
Day 2 - Discovering Etna volcano and its wines.
We wake up in Sicily, with its colours and its atmosphere, and begin the day with a good breakfast. In a short time, the drivers with their jeeps will pick us up for an excursion to Mount Etna! Once on the jeeps, we enter the freeway, than we'll move to off road tracks, in order to climb up on the largest active volcano of Europe, the so called Good Giant. It will be an occasion for acquaintance, while enjoying the excitation of the off-road. There will be time for a short trekking excursion, in order to admire the majestic Valle del Bove, in which the
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Eris Centre - Suite 309 - Via Pulica s.n.
Lotto Colle del Gelsomino - 95024 Aci S. Antonio (CT) - Italy
Tel. +39.095.7652696 (ext.309) - Fax +39.095.7652696 (ext.319)
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volcano is pouring most of its lava castings. Once we return to the jeeps, we will find a small buffet of sweet wine and pastries of almonds, or pistachio. We will continue to one of the biggest wineries of the Island for a guided visit, in order to discover the secrets of high level wine making... obviously, we will glad to taste those wines, accompanying them to a tasting of local gastronomic products, or, why not, a complete lunch made up of typical specialties. Be careful, because during the day it is our task to collect clue that will
concur to the solution of the game; it can be clues, or something happening or someone that we will see at the winery... We will return to the hotel in the afternoon, after lunch, and have free time to absorb the emotions of the encounter with the mountain. Tonight, another splendid historical dwelling is waiting for us, with a new menu and new sensations for our palate... again, dinner will be accompanied by adequate musicians. After supper we will return to the hotel, carrying with us the flavours and the colours of the day.
Day 3 - The Godfather places.
A good breakfast will give us the necessary energy for another day of discoveries and fun. Today we will visit Savoca and Taormina, the pearl of the Mediterranean Sea. We will depart to Savoca in order to visit the filmic places of the saga of the Godfather, and he will welcome us personally there, always accompanied by his trusted butler, entertaining us with his mysterious speeches that only the families are able to comprehend. It will be another chance to acquire new clues, with the help of our picciotti, creating an atmosphere of collaboration between the members of the families. We stop to lunch in a fine restaurant and, after a light but satisfactory meal, always accompanied by the best wines of Sicily, we continue to Taormina,
where we will visit the main monuments and have free time for shopping or for a cold and tasty drink in one of the many cafés along the Corso. It is time to return to the hotel: this evening, another delicious dinner in an elite atmosphere is waiting for us or, if our journey is carried out in the warm season, we could have supper at a stone throw from a splendid beach, just in front of the sea, and then we'll move to the beach for a bonfire, in
the company of a jazz guitar player, for the after dinner. We'll then return to the hotel: tomorrow there's a regatta on board of luxurious boats waiting for us!
Day 4 - The Regatta ad the Game.
It's time to wake up and to begin a new day with wonder! We move to the port or, if our hotel is on the beach and close to one of our ports, they will come to pick us up from the hotel beach with motor launches and take us to the boats. We will be navigating along the coast and, during navigation, we will be called to the rudder, in order to demonstrate our abilities, building up score for our family. Once we arrive to the next port, we will moor and have time to taste a granita (typical Sicilian ice cream). We then navigate towards Catania or Taormina, and reach one of those in time for lunch. The lunch could be served in a fine restaurant, all based on fish, or, according to the number of participants, we will all move in our yacht and have lunch there, with a menu based on lobsters, fruits de mer and a selection of excellent
wines. After lunch, it is time to be navigating towards the hotel. There will also be time to stop in one of the beautiful bays for a refreshing bath. Once at the hotel we will rest for some time: this evening is the big evening. The Game, started the first day, reaches its natural conclusion during dinner with the Godfather, in an historical dwelling that has been location for some of the most important scenes of the saga by Francis F. Coppola, the Godfather. We will be received by the picciotti, some of them mounted on horses, and after a welcome cocktail we will learn that the godfather has been shot: it is now up to us to discover who the killer is, along
with the other targets we were consigned. With the help of the picciotti, one per family, we will be guided towards the solution of the game. During supper, with diplomacy, a presenter will give us more clues and entertain us, keeping the game lively. There will be also time for intrigues, deceptions, agreements for interest weddings... all of this accompanied by plates of absolute quality and wines of excellence, a worthy soundtrack chosen for the event or, why not, live music. At the end of supper, all the members of the families will have a participation parchment, while the winning family will be rewarded with a golden coppola for every member, or with a prize chosen by the sponsoring company (such as: a small jewel in gold or silver, or others). Obviously, the new Godfather will be a member of the winning family... A firework show before returning to the hotel, in order to celebrate a perfectly successful event that will remain in our memory for a long time. We will then return to hotel, for the deserved rest after such an intense day.
Day 5 - Goodbye to Sicily.
It is time to say goodbye to the land that has hosted us for this unforgettable event, therefore we will enjoy some free time, in order to taste some longer the colours and flavours of it, before flying back home. If our flight is in the afternoon, we will have time for some shopping, buying souvenirs for the friends or the relatives back home. It is also possible to have a farewell gift for each participant, chosen by the sponsoring company between one of our proposals. We will have a buffet lunch in hotel; we'll then move to the airport, in the company of our picciotti, greeting us and wishing us a good flight home, in the hope to see us all again in Sicily.
BlueStone Tourism Services
Tour Operator for Sicily
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Eris Centre - Suite 309
Via Pulica s.n.
Lotto Colle del Gelsomino
95024 Aci S. Antonio (CT)
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Tel. +39.095.7652696 (ext.309)
Fax +39.095.7652696 (ext.319)
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