After the Saudi oil princes and then the new Russian billionaires, the Costa Smeralda in 2024 confirms itself as the favorite destination for American luxury tourists, a trend that began in the 2022 season, the year of the conflict on the outskirts of Ukraine which froze the summer in Gallura of the magnates from Russia.

To say this, the frequency of private flights landing on the general aviation runways of the Olbia airport taking off from the States: according to the analyzes of the Study Center of the UniOlbia university campus, released today, in the first twenty days of July, general aviation, which in the summer it is one of the first in Europe for number of movements, it welcomed private jets arriving from Los Angeles, New York, New Jersey and Washington.

Doubled compared to pre-pandemic years, the presence of powerful American businessmen who choose Gallura and explore it while looking at it from the sea continues to increase: according to the first data processed by Cipnes on the movements of super yachts in the waters of the Costa Smeralda, between Porto Rotondo and Porto Cervo in June, the yachts increased by 17 percent compared to the same month last year and by 75 percent compared to that of 2018. According to Cipnes monitoring, among the latest sighted last weekend in the sea of Gallura there are three owned by the eight richest men in the world, two Americans: the Koru of Jeff Bezos, owner of Amazon, and the Wayfinder of Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft.

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