(ANSA) - ROME, OCTOBER 13 - Travel e-commerce is driving the resumption of tourism, a sector that as a whole confirms a strong recovery after two years characterized by limitations to mobility, approaching the levels of the pre-pandemic.
Driving the trend is precisely the digital component: in 2022 e-commerce in the transport market grows in absolute value by + 84% compared to 2021, reaching 11.2 billion euros and reaching -6% on 2019, while in the hospitality market Online purchases grow by + 32% and exceed 14.9 billion, exceeding the sector's pre-pandemic figure by 2% (i.e. 14.5 billion in 2019).
It emerges from the survey of the Digital Innovation in Tourism Observatory of the School of Management of the Politecnico di Milano presented at the TTG TravelExperience in Rimini.
"The numbers give a snapshot of a sector that is gradually completing a restoration work, after the evident limitations suffered by the pandemic" explains Filippo Renga, director of the Digital Tourism Innovation Observatory of the Politecnico di Milano.
"The recovery of international travel and the return of business travel, as well as a general increase in consumer prices due to current inflationary dynamics and the increase in energy costs for operators, contributed to accelerating this recovery."
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