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Andiamo – Let’s go to Italia! Updated, Refreshed and Responsibly Designed Tours Across Italy Available to Book Now Across EF Ultimate Break for Gen Z and Millennial Travelers

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Tours implement principles of limiting group sizes, carbon mitigation, supporting local communities, and following City of Venice’s responsible traveler protocols25+ tours across Italy include food & wine experiences, women-only tours and more 

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Andiamo! EF Ultimate Break, a leader in guided, experiential travel for 18-35-year-olds, today announced a promotion around a collection of 25+ responsibly designed tours to Italy, a top international travel market for Gen Z and Millennials.

The full Italian collection can be found here: www.efultimatebreak.com/tours/europe/italy.

“We recognize that Italy represents one of the most in-demand destinations for more sustainably minded Gen Z and Millennial travelers. Our ‘Andiamo’ campaign invites young adult travelers to experience Italy’s rich culture, welcoming spirit, and vibrant communities — while we continue to emphasize the importance of being responsible travelers, supporting the local communities we visit,” said Heather Leisman, President, EF Ultimate Break.

More than a dozen responsibly re-designed tours in Italy, plus many more destinations across the world, are on sale now for up to $800 off. Plus, EF Ultimate Break’s Enhanced Travel Protection Plan provides peace of mind – to cancel for any reason – especially during those moments when life simply gets in the way. Finance your trip over time with our interest-free payment plans.

For more deals, visit: www.efultimatebreak.com/deals

Top Tours Include:

Ultimate Italy: The *chef’s kiss* Italian experience. Blissfully lose yourself among the historic churches and narrow winding streets of Venice. Explore the stunningly colorful villages of Cinque Terre. Discover the incredible history of Rome and Pompeii. Oh, and we heard the food’s decent, too.

17 days, 6 citiesFrom $2,999 before flights (Estimated payments as low as $113)

Venice, Florence & Rome: Our top-rated best of Italy tour awaits. It’s about late-night pasta with people who just get it, losing track of time on a gondola, and standing in front of art and architecture that actually makes your heart race. Maybe you’re here to trace your roots. Maybe you’re craving something real. Whatever brought you here, you’re exactly where you’re meant to be.

10 days, 3 cities From $1,769 before flights (Estimated payments as low as $65)

Taste of Italy: Tuscany & Umbria: This is the Italy that not everyone sees—but everyone should. Travel from iconic cities to quaint hilltop villages, (over)indulging in pasta, cheese, and gelato every step of the way. Buon appetito!

12 days, 5 cities

From $3,389 before flights (Estimated payments as low as $165)

A focus on responsible tour design

The tenets of EF Ultimate Break’s responsible tour design principles include three core areas of focus: 1) carbon mitigation, 2) animal welfare and 3) supporting local communities.

In markets across Italy, tour development teams also considered the Commune of Venice and their #EnjoyRespectVenice guidelines to educate travelers on ways to be more responsible travelers. Additionally, tour design principles included:

Limiting Tour Group Sizes: With the advent of group size limitations within the city proper, EF Ultimate Break has worked diligently to create smaller, more intimate guided sightseeing experiences in the city.Carbon Mitigation: Facilitating more responsible travel across the Venetian lagoon and city, select itineraries will include public transportation on ACTV boats, trams, and buses. Our new program will include the Venice Unica card to ensure travelers have access to as much of Venice’s culture heritage as possible – all accessible via public transportation.Overtourism: Ensuring tour groups in Venice move beyond the most trafficked paths to experience other iconic and historic neighborhoods in the city like the Jewish Ghetto and less frequented stops like the serene and contemplative Church of the Greeks in Castello.Supporting Local Economies: Local businesses also figure largely in our new tours across Italy to ensure the economic impact of travel is equitably felt around the country. Some of our partners in Venice for instance include: Rosa Salva, a legendary, family-run Venetian bakery that’s been serving up the good stuff since 1870. Passed down through six generations, the Rosa Salva family continues to craft traditional Venetian treats with the same passion and quality that made them famous.Cultural Preservation: Partnering with organizations in Italy focused on preserving local traditions and quality of life, including groups like Row Venice, a non-profit organization supporting expert vogatrici, Venetian women rowers, particularly those skilled in the traditional “voga alla veneta” style of rowing, which involves standing and facing forward while rowing (a practice made iconic by the gondoliers).

A September 2024 survey, conducted by EF Ultimate Break and Qualtrics Research, of Gen Z and younger Millennial travelers, ages 18-35, residing in the United States and Canada, found that 72% of young adults said sustainability factors into their travel purchase decisions. The majority of young adult travelers (56%) said they would book the more sustainable travel choice even if it cost more than options that are less friendly to the environment or local communities. 75% of young adults said it was important to them that a travel company has an animal welfare policy, and 73% said it was important that a travel company supports local business.

About EF Ultimate Break
EF Ultimate Break is the best way to experience the world for anyone 18-35. With over 140+ trips, we handle logistics for everything that makes travel a great experience from accommodations to flights to amazing tour directors to memory-making excursions. Our affordable interest-free payment plans make international travel possible for every traveler. EF Ultimate Break is part of EF Education First, the world leader in international education, has helped millions of people throughout its history learn a language, discover the world, or earn an academic degree. 

Want to be a brand ambassador for EF Ultimate Break and earn free travel? Learn more by visiting: #1 Travel Brand Ambassador Program | EF Ultimate Break.

Partners can now participate in EF Ultimate Break’s affiliate marketing program and earn commissions for tour bookings. Click here to learn more.

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Trip.com Group Sincerely Accepts Administrative Penalty Decision Issued by the State Administration for Market Regulation of the People’s Republic of China

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SINGAPORE, July 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Trip.com Group Limited (Nasdaq: TCOM; HKEX: 9961) today announced that it has received the administrative penalty decision issued by the State Administration for Market Regulation of the People’s Republic of China.

Trip.com Group sincerely accepts the decision and will adopt rectification measures in accordance with applicable laws and regulations to implement the decision’s requirements. The Company will strengthen its long-term governance mechanisms and strive to contribute to the sustainable development of the travel industry.

Trip.com Group’s management team will host a conference call at 8:00 AM U.S. Eastern Time on July 27, 2026 (or 8:00 PM Hong Kong Time on July 27, 2026).

The conference call will be available on Webcast live at: http://investors.trip.com.

All participants must pre-register to join this conference call using the participant registration link below:
https://register-conf.media-server.com/register/BIb78e08d8f18340c4882a7e4ab961906b.

Upon registration, each participant will receive details for this conference call, including dial-in numbers and a unique access PIN. To join the conference, please dial the number provided, enter your PIN, and you will join the conference instantly.

For further information, please contact:
Investor Relations
Trip.com Group Limited
Email: iremail@trip.com

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NAVER Partners with Brookfield and NVIDIA to Expand Korea’s National AI Factory Infrastructure Buildout

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SAN FRANCISCO, July 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — NAVER, Brookfield and NVIDIA announced an expansion of Korea’s sovereign AI factory infrastructure. New investments will increase the initial NVIDIA DSX™ AI factory deployment from 55 megawatts to 200 megawatts.

Announced during Korea President Jae Myung Lee’s AI Summit visit to San Francisco, the planned 200-megawatt expansion will be built with the NVIDIA DSX platform at NAVER’s GAK Sejong hyperscale data center in Sejong, South Korea. The expanded infrastructure will provide Korea- and U.S.- based AI innovators with access to production-scale AI compute for building next-generation models, agents and AI-powered services.

Under the terms of the agreements, Brookfield will fund up to $9 billion as the exclusive capital partner, NVIDIA will invest $1 billion and NAVER will fund the remaining amount to finance the $10 billion project.

This builds on NAVER’s June announcement to extend its GAK Sejong data center with NVIDIA DSX, with a long-term path to gigawatt-scale sovereign AI infrastructure serving Korea’s enterprises, industries, government organizations and global AI cloud customers. Combining Brookfield’s capital with NVIDIA’s computing platform, the investment supports NAVER’s AI factory deployment.

“NVIDIA’s strategic investment and our infrastructure supply agreement with Brookfield have propelled NAVER’s vision for the AI Factory business into a robust execution phase,” said Haejin Lee, Founder and Chairman of NAVER. “Leveraging the solid partnerships with our global partners, we will drive technological innovation, foster a sovereign AI ecosystem, and spearhead efforts to strengthen South Korea’s AI competitiveness.” 

AI Factory Expansion and Open Model Collaboration to Fuel AI Innovators

NAVER, as an NVIDIA Cloud Partner, provides deep expertise in operating hyperscale infrastructure powered by the full-stack NVIDIA AI platform. The 200-megawatt AI factory, featuring NVIDIA Vera Rubin and Blackwell platforms, will establish a dedicated resource pool for emerging AI companies, providing the compute, software and support needed to develop and deploy competitive AI models and applications at scale.

This expanded infrastructure also builds on NAVER and NVIDIA’s collaboration on open model development for agentic and physical AI. NAVER is advancing its HyperCLOVA X models to be based on NVIDIA Nemotron™ 3 Ultra open models with its proprietary data and training expertise. NAVER is also the first Korean company to join the NVIDIA Nemotron Coalition, contributing to open model development across pretraining, post-training and reinforcement learning.

NAVER plans to launch an AI agent platform in Korea in the second half of the year, powered by NVIDIA Agent Toolkit software including NVIDIA NemoClaw™ blueprints. NAVER is also developing a Seoul World Model using proprietary urban street-view and spatial modeling data, built on NVIDIA Cosmos™ world foundation models.

About NAVER

Founded in 1999, NAVER is Korea’s largest Internet company and one of the world’s top tech companies. Leading cutting-edge technologies, NAVER operates the No.1 search engine in Korea and holds various business portfolios encompassing commerce, fintech, cloud, AI and robotics.

NAVER recorded sales of KRW 12.04 trillion (USD 8.18 billion) in 2025. TEAM NAVER continues to enhance its business portfolio and expand its global presence across Japan, North America, and Europe, while pursuing innovation through continuous research and development in future technologies.

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Beijing Review: Walking Through Time: China and U.S. Youths Explore Dali’s Past and Future

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BEIJING, July 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — On July 17, a China-U.S. youth delegation came to Dali of Yunnan Province. By examining how Dali’s rich history intersects with modern development, the delegates explored new pathways for rural development.

They visited Dali Old Town, tried their hand at making the Bai people’s Three-Course Tea and also explored the ancient town of Xizhou, where they learned how modern tourism and indigenous life coexist.

In Yunnanyi Village, they explored its history as a stop along the Tea Horse Road and learned about the role it played during the Second World War (WWII).

Tyler James Smith

“I think it’s a very underappreciated part of World War II history. Hearing these stories of different countries working together despite cultural differences is incredibly inspiring.

I also think there are many stories like these that haven’t been widely told, simply because World War II is such a complex period in history. That’s why I think it’s so meaningful to visit museums like this and experience these stories firsthand.”

At Xiangyun Economic and Technological Development Zone, they visited a local new energy company to see how green, low-carbon development is driving regional growth.

Valerie Marie

“I recently started studying energy transitions. I know China has been really big in the renewable energy sector. So actually getting to hear more about [China’s] 2060 [pledge], learning more about carbon neutrality [goals], as well as other zero-carbon goals, was cool.”

During their stay in Dali, they also strolled along the Erhai Lake Ecological Corridor.

Bai Yiwen

“I’d describe this journey as “to be continued,” because my own connection with Yunnan is far from over. For the U.S. delegates, this was only their first visit, so they’ve only had a glimpse of what Yunnan has to offer. I hope they will have more opportunities to come back to China, explore other cities in Yunnan, and discover even more of its people, culture and traditions.”

After Dali, the delegates will visit Beijing for more tours and exchanges. The event was co-hosted by China International Communications Group (CICG) Center for the Americas and the U.S.-based International Student Conferences.

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