AG Group–Your gateway to Italy is the first tourism group in Italy able to meet all aspects of demand in-house: DMC/tour operator and event management, consulting, hospitality, food service, and senior housing.
The companies RSI–Italy Boutique Journey (tour operator), Italy Hotels Collection (hotel consultancy and revenue management), MAG Hotels (four-star hotels in the center of Rome), and Diana’s Place (bistro with gourmet cuisine and excellently stocked wine cellars), all founded and managed by Andrea Girolami, are merged under the brand AG Group (the founder’s initials) and, together with an additional product line consisting of retirement homes for the elderly, give rise to the first tourism group in Italy capable of satisfying all market demands in-house: DMC/tour operator and event management, consultancy, hospitality, restaurants, and senior housing.
AG Group, whose claim is significantly Your gateway to Italy, is online today at www.aggroupitaly.it, and thus rebrands all the aforementioned product lines:
- AG Hotels, five four-star hotels in the center of Rome, plus a sixth opening in September and a five-star hotel in Florence, on the prestigious Via de’ Tornabuoni, opening at the end of the year. Openings in Venice and Milan will follow.
- AG Boutique Journey, tour operator, DMC, event agency, and wedding planner with a strong specialization in luxury.
- AG Hotel Consulting, a consultancy agency for four and five-star hotels, which contributes to the commercialization of thirty hotels in central Italy and aims to reach one hundred in two years.
- AG Foodies, bistro in Rome and the terraces of two AG Hotels (as well as, soon, that in Florence), equipped with gourmet kitchens. The creative director is the renowned Michelin-starred chef Andrea Fusco.
- AG Domus Nova, the Group’s novelty: a major project of retirement homes, starting from central Italy, also addressing the demand for senior hospitality.
Andrea Girolami is an entrepreneur with over twenty years of experience in the tourism and hospitality sector. He graduated in Economics from La Sapienza University in Rome and immediately, from 1994 to 2000, worked for major business consulting firms. During those years he was also active in academia, dealing with topics related to the formulation and implementation of strategic choices in the business sector.
The entrepreneurial turning point came in 2000, when he launched RSI, a tour operator that quickly established itself as one of the most dynamic players in Italian inbound tourism. RSI quintupled in ten years, became RSI Group and established five divisions to characterize the macro-areas of the Tour Operator’s activities (Travel, Events, Sport Events, RSI Communication, and Weddings).
The success of RSI Group prompted Girolami to embark on a project to diversify the business. Thus, in 2011, he entered the hotel sector with the purchase of his first property, which the following year became his first four-star owned hotel. The ambitious development plan did not stop and continued with other partners with the opening of no less than 16 hotels. Growth in hospitality continued with the inauguration of a luxury hotel in Florence—by the end of 2019—and then on to Venice and Milan.
Instead, 2015 saw the opening of Italy Hotels Collection, a company specializing in hotel consultancy and revenue management: currently, the business includes over thirty properties and aims to expand its portfolio to one hundred within the next two years.
But that’s not all. A passion for champagne, fine drinking, and gastronomy spurred Andrea Girolami to open in Rome, in 2017, the first bistro under the Diana’s Place brand, offering gourmet cuisine in refined yet informal settings, followed by similar ventures in other cities.
Born from this remarkable entrepreneurial background, AG Group employs 250 people, is in constant growth, and from today presents itself to the global public as a privileged gateway—in a one-stop-shop perspective—to Italy and its wonders.
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