NERO Hotels sponsored the NIAF Italia Awards 2016, awards presented to personalities whose work has made an outstanding contribution to relations between Italy and the United States.

Against the backdrop of Rome's Aquarium, the National Italian American Foundation awards were presented, amongst others, to the Minister for Economic Development Carlo Calenda, the President of Anm Piercamillo Davigo, the President of the Centro Studi Americani and Leonardo Finmeccanica Gianni De Gennaro and the President of the Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana Carlo Capasa, by Andrea Delfini, President of NERO Hotels and Vice-President of NIAF Italia.