{"id":214813,"date":"2020-11-20T14:49:01","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T13:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fulltravel.it\/trade\/turismo-in-lutto-muore-massimo-loquenzi-presidente-di-visit-usa\/212471\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T13:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:32:12","slug":"tourism-in-mourning-massimo-loquenzi-president-of-visit-usa-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fulltravel.it\/trade\/en\/tourism-in-mourning-massimo-loquenzi-president-of-visit-usa-dies","title":{"rendered":"Tourism in mourning: Massimo Loquenzi, president of Visit Usa, has died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world of tourism mourns another key figure. During the night, in Rome, the <strong>president<\/strong> and founder of <strong>Visit Usa in Italy<\/strong> and owner of the marketing and communications agency <em>Master Consulting<\/em>: <strong>Massimo Loquenzi<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>A great connoisseur of the United States, <em>Massimo Loquenzi<\/em> held the Italian representation for several U.S. destinations<em>States<\/em> and, since February of this year, had returned as head of the association <em>Visit Usa<\/em> whose board, in a statement, expressed this painful moment:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Dearest Friends,&#8221; it reads, &#8220;it is with deep sorrow and great consternation that the Visit USA Italy Association announces the loss of its President, Massimo Loquenzi.\u00a0<\/em><em>Massimo was the founder of the Visit USA Association, taking it from a Committee to an Association, and with a modern and dynamic vision, he always dedicated commitment and enthusiasm to promoting travel to and from the United States and spreading American culture. A gentle person and of great stature, always present in all our lives.\u00a0<\/em><em>The board, all the members, and the secretariat of the Visit USA Association extend their heartfelt condolences in this sad moment to his daughter Francesca and the entire Loquenzi family<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>The editorial team of FullTravel and the director <em>Anna Bruno<\/em> join in the grief of his wife Laura, his daughter Francesca, the family, friends, and all collaborators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Massimo Loquenzi, president of Visit USA and founder of Master Consulting, has passed away in Rome due to complications from COVID.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fulltravel.it\/trade\/en\/tourism-in-mourning-massimo-loquenzi-president-of-visit-usa-dies\" title=\"Tourism in mourning: Massimo Loquenzi, president of Visit Usa, has died\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":212472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-travelnews-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fulltravel.it\/trade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fulltravel.it\/trade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fulltravel.it\/trade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fulltravel.it\/trade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fulltravel.it\/trade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214813"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fulltravel.it\/trade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214816,"href":"https:\/\/www.fulltravel.it\/trade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214813\/revisions\/214816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fulltravel.it\/trade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fulltravel.it\/trade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fulltravel.it\/trade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fulltravel.it\/trade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}