Mission

Bluestone’s mission is to create the event into the event, the excitement of a magical island with the emotion of an event with a strong creative impact.

Thanks to a diverse land and culture for thousands of years giving creativity and uniqueness, we give attention to the organization of incentive travel, corporate meetings, conferences and thematic special events, team building and motivation, unique holidays or tailor-made tours in Sicily.

Bluestone Tourism Services, a Destination Management Company for Sicily, is an unlimited, category A, tour operator; our company specializes in Meetings-Incentives-Conventions-Events (MICE).

Principles

•  Transparency is one of the hinge points of our professional code.

•  Like transparency, professionalism and seriousness is key to the resolution of an event; our support is aimed at the attainment of the objectives of our customers.

•  As a quality DMC we make the maximum effort to advise the customer to the best choices and to work with them to the resolution of the event.

•  The choice of our collaborators and suppliers is highly selective.

•  Nowadays we can say we have extensive technical and personnel support, reliability and experience.

•  Bluestone is member of SITE (Society of Incentive and Travel Executives) and MPI (Meeting Planner International) and consequently adopts and shares their principle and ethical codes.

Events

An incentive can be a defined marketing operation, means to transmit to a strategic message to employees or customers; the objective is to motivate the partners or to strengthen the tie with the customers. For this reason, it is introduced as a unique and special tour, while it must contain the scope of the company and the romance and seduction of a vacation.

Consequently, its success is due not only to technical choices but qualitative factors of precisely the emotional type. The main motivation is that of a common experience, like the trip, positive influential activities aiming for collaboration, loyalty and group spirit. Motivation and harmony leads automatically to company growth.

The Bluestone is a leader in organizing incentives of rather unconventional and innovative themes; each event has a thread that, with the inclusion of creative ideas, motivational team-building, interactive activities, entertainment, guiding the event as proposed and achieving strong emotional involvement.

We work with companies and direct national and international incentive agencies at all stages of creating an event, communication and planning, development and organization, be it:

Incentives;

Meetings and Conventions;

Product Launches;

Motivational travel.

Team Building

Team building is a tool for companies to improve the sense of belonging and mutual trust, especially during change, transformation and reorganization.

It can encourage and develop specific rules for participation in team work, promoting fast processes integration and cooperation.

Bluestone over the years has had the opportunity to refine team building techniques and motivation for different groups, both in numbers as well as nationality and languages spoken. To date, we guarantee a unique approach and a unique experience to:

Ø Motivate participants to a more solid team;

Ø Integrate new members in the company;

Ø Encourage initiatives and creative ideas;

Ø Improve corporate atmosphere;

Ø Make the most of your incentives.

Entertainment

As with team building, entertainment also contributes to the enrichment and completes the event. Again Bluestone studies and proposes shows and activities tailored to the needs of the client.

Our experience, multilingual staff, reliable partners and industry professionals allows us to organize unique opportunities for:

q  Gala or welcome;

q  Presentations;

q  Awards.

Tour operating

Bluestone is a tour operator. Like for events, we provide a personalized approach and extensive experience to ensure that your holiday is unforgettable, a unique journey into a land of art and culture, sun and sea, nature and gastronomy.

Services available for individuals and groups:

² Tour and mini tours of Sicily;

² Daily tours,

² trips and excursions for cruise passengers;

² Gastronomy and wine tasting and oil;

² Sicilian cooking courses and classes for groups;

² Transfer services;

² Excursions to Etna and other destinations in 4 x 4;

² Helicopter Tours;

² Mini-day cruises to the Aeolian Islands;

² Sea tours of Sicily and the Aeolian Islands on a luxurious private yacht, sailboat or catamaran;

² Day charter a private yacht for a tour of Sicily and the Aeolian Islands;

² Accommodation in hotels and resorts.

Curriculum

Bluestone was created in 2003 and is a member of SITE and MPI.

Its events and activities have always received much interest, it has been reviewed by the Chicago Sun Times, has been featured in interviews and publications in various journals and public documents in England as well as in trade magazines in Italy (MICE, Incentivare, IT and Meeting & Conventions).

During Site international conference in Las Vegas on October 2011, has been awarded with the prestigious Crystal Award for the Best Motivational Exceptional Program 2011 Europe.

Finally, has also participated in a documentary on the island’s history and travel, aired on Sky Art Channel.

Among the customers for whom we created and organized events and activities in several languages, are: Goodyear -Dunlop, Deutsche Bank, Nokia, Volkswagen, BMW, Wyeth Pharma, Philips Lighting, HTC, Royal Canadian Mint, Intel…

Since 2008 we have collaborated with different institutions in tourism management training classes and seminars for Master's Degree in Tourist Management.

In evidence: Customers and events of last five years

•  Discovery Network, kick off of 2015 TV Listings to the main sponsors (50 pax)

•  Chief Executives Organization, Annual educational college (46 pax)

•  Aloxi, motivational incentive event, awarding trip (48 pax)

•  Fargerike, convention with motivational and incentive activities (180 pax)

•  Goodyear-Dunlop Luxembourg, product launch and test drives (600 pax)

•  Miniox, motivational incentive event (80pax)

•  Philips Lightning Europe, Quality Improvement Competition Europe, motivational event (500 pax)

•  Deutsche Bank, motivational event (150 pax)

•  Strabag, motivational and incentive event (400 pax)

•  Novartis, motivational event (110 pax)

• Westmont Pharmaceutical Philippines, recreational activities during a scientific convention, (250 pax)

•  Michelin, team buildings and entertainments (130 pax)

•  Opel, team buildings and entertainments (80 pax)

•  Nokia Italia, motivational team building activity (50 pax)

•  Coca Cola Italy, motivational team building activity (50 pax)

•  Credit Agricole Assurances France, motivational and incentive event (150 pax)

•  OTP Bank, convention with team buildings activities, (80pax)

•  Volkswagen Deutschland, motivational and incentive event (25 Top Retailers of Germany)

• Wyeth Pharma UK, Annual Convention and motivational and incentive event (60 pax)

•  HTC, product launch with motivational and incentive event (70 pax)

•  Intel UK, Annual Convention and upscale motivational activities (70 pax)

•  Lilly UK, upscale motivational and incentive activities (60 pax)

•  STiS Russia, International Forum and motivational event (180 pax)

•  Goodyear-Dunlop BeNeLux, product launch, test drives, motivational and incentive activities (200 pax)

•  Dassault Systémes Francia, motivational activity (30 pax)

•  Fondation IPSEN, recreational activities during a scientific convention (60 pax)

•  BIC France, motivational event (100 pax)

•  BMW Italy, motivational and incentive event (55 pax)

•  Royal Canadian Mint, Annual Convention and upscale motivational activities (50 pax)

•  Your next event…

Bluestone Sicily Dear Riccardo & Antonio:   Words do not seem sufficient to express the level of gratitude and admiration both Krista Belle Mickelson and I feel for you.  During our recent group event with Discovery Communications, Bluestone was an amazing, hard working and supportive partner in Sicily. As this was RPMC’s first time partnering with Bluestone, there were lots of client expectations and established service levels that we had to meet for our client.   You guys understood and met the challenge head on providing the highest level of service coupled with out-of-the box creativity. The feedback from our client and their guests on the activities, events and destination have been very positive.  Special thanks to Riccardo for all of his hard work and planning pre-event.  We know we challenged you to find the best of  Sicily for our group and you did an amazing job. Your level of commitment was instrumental in helping us create a successful event. Krista and I are very grateful to you, the entire Bluestone team and your local partners.  Everyone went above and beyond the call of duty for RPMC and Discovery Communications and we sincerely thank you for this. We look forward to the opportunity to work with you again.   Warmest Regards,

Liz Owens VP, Development

RPMC _______________ Dear Bluestone team

Dear Enza,  

I received the feedback of Mr. Jüstrich and also Mr. Rey-Mermet and would like to confirm that they very much liked the trip to Sicily.

It was not an easy group but the “challenges” were very professionally handled and solved by Enza and I would like to take this opportunity to thank you, Enza, for your remarkable commitment! For

Uniqueworld this is actually all that counts: Having a DMC who is willing and capable to react when there is an unforeseen trouble. And troubles happen – everywhere…

Kind regards, Soraiya

Some of the latest reviews

Some of the latest reviews

Dear friends of Bluestone, With this letter I would like you to have the feedback that we received on our Philips EMEA Lighting Semi Final Quality Improvement Competition. These 5 events took place in Taormina from April 11 – May 4 and I can tell you that all 5 groups of each 80 persons, including our Philips Lighting Senior Management Members, were very much impressed. They were particularly impressed with the hospitality, professionalism and service level of your team that supported us in the best possible way during our stay in Taormina for almost 4 weeks. Your showed a personal approach and interest in not only our Corporate Quality program. You also took the time for each of our delegates, which definitely was really a way to show you also cared for our company goal:

Quality with a capital “Q”! Circumstances were not easy, mainly because of the Iceland volcano ash cloud that paralyzed the entire airspace in Europe for a few days during our stay in Taormina. Our managers, all with busy meeting calendars were grateful to your personal interference in getting them back home by bus from Sicily to France, Poland and the Netherlands. It took them quite some hours. Let’s just say they experienced a real special way of bonding and team building while driving back home (was I glad I didn’t have to be on the bus, but could enjoy sunny Taormina!! J) Antonio and Ricardo, please extend my compliments to your staff and I sincerely hope to work with you again in the future. Warmest and personal regards, Evy Peters Philips Lighting Global QIC Event Organizer

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 Dear Bluestone Team, 

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for the hard work and diligence that you extended to us during the arrangement and the actual arrangements of our group. You have devoted your time and effort to ensure that

everything will work according to the requirements of our clients. We are quite fortunate that we were able to get a partner like you in Sicily that can be trusted and share our passion and that is to deliver proper customer service with

heart. I hope that you will continue that service attitude since with that I am sure you will go a long way.

Kudos to Bluestone Team and More Power!

Thanks and best regards, 

Grace  

Bluestone  Staff  

“We strongly believe that travel should be personalized, which is why we like to blend in experiences tailored to personal desires along with truly special

options reflecting the destination”

Bluestone s.r.l. – Via Felice Paradiso, 62 – I95024 Acireale (CT)

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E-mail: info@bluestonesicily.com Web: www.bluestonesicily.com