ROME - Full recovery for foreign tourism in Italy even if with a different trend in the different markets.
It emerges from a study by Confcommercio: American tourism is growing which, thanks also to the strong dollar, returns to the levels of 2019 with 4.4 million visitors in accommodation facilities between July and September, Asian tourism is reduced, Russian tourism almost eliminated.
Overall, the tourist spending of foreigners in Italy for July-September will be 17 billion, thus returning to pre-Covid values, with a share of spending by Americans of over 2.1 billion euros, a value 20% higher than that of 2019.
Also at the European level there is a constant recovery of foreign tourism towards Italy according to the Confcommercio study, in collaboration with TRA Consulting.
The trend for the summer of 2022 seems to be quite in line with the 2019 data. Spain in the four-month period from June to September is expected to recover the passenger values of 2019 with about one million passengers.
The UK continues its month-over-month recovery towards 2019 with a quarter in which arrivals are estimated at 16% to 6% fewer passengers than in 2019. This is a market with just under 2 million arrivals in the summer. , which before Covid had recorded good growth trends, especially in Central and Southern Italy.
German tourism is recovering only in part which, however, records a decline in arrivals by air by 27% compared to 2019 in July (an important month for the holidays of this market) and values that in any case remain 18% lower still in the forecasts of September.
Thanks to the effect of the severe inconvenience recorded in the airports due to strikes and unrest, the first incoming market for Italy - with almost 7.5 million arrivals in tourist accommodation facilities between June and September - would therefore risk being partially lacking. appeal of the resumption.
However, the mix of means of transport chosen to come to Italy comes to the rescue, which only involves air transport in 50% of cases.
The result is that,
