A sold out Easter with holidaymakers from across the border, at record levels for the first half of April.
This is predicted by a survey conducted by Cna Turismo e Commercio among the members of the association from all over Italy.
Overall, there will be 3 million tourists who will stay at least one night in hotels or non-hotel facilities.
With the result of reaching, if not even exceeding, the levels of 2019, the last season before the Covid epidemic.
Over 2 million will be Italians, around a million foreigners.
For an overall economic movement that will reach 4 billion euros, obviously excluding the contribution of domestic excursionists, who will limit their vacation to a single day trip, and of those who will go to second homes.
The countries of origin from which foreign tourists are flowing to Italy in greater numbers are, as regards Europe, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Spain and Holland, as regards the other continents, the United States of America, Canada, Japan, the rest of Asia and generally the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern area.
Thanks above all to the contribution of the foreign influx, the cities and villages of art are destined to experience an excellent moment.
Among the cities to excel as an attractive destination will be Venice, Rome, Milan, Florence, Naples.
Also in great dust Turin and Palermo, Catania and Verona, Genoa and Ravenna.
But the desire for beauty will not stop at cities.
Holidaymakers this year will discover new areas and beat urban centers and small towns of Marche, Umbria, Abruzzo, Basilicata, Molise.
In turn, nature will carve out its own space with the sea of Puglia, Calabria, Sicily, Sardinia or the mountains of the Alps.
Driving tourism in areas usually less frequented, in addition to many attractions - artistic, naturalistic, agro-food, artisanal - are experiential activities,
Confcooperative, '2 out of 10 Italians travel at Easter'
Despite the difficulties of the cost of living, according to Confcooperative, Italians are in search of normality: 3 out of 10 will celebrate Easter at home with their families;
another 4 out of 10 in restaurants and farm holidays.
Traveling, almost everyone in Italy, 2 out of 10 Italians, or about 12 million people.
Booming business for farmhouses, restaurants and hotels underlines the association, but 4 out of 5 structures strongly complain about a lack of staff which constrains or limits their activities.
The total expenditure for the table, estimates the Confcooperative study center, is close to 1.2 billion, 100 million less than pre-covid and 150 million more than last year.
A higher cost, but not a higher expense since the outlay is driven by inflation.
The
price
increases
hit the traditional Easter lunch and will lead Italian families to spend a total of around 240 million euros more to set the tables for the holiday
.
The Codacons
affirms it
which, in view of the anniversary, has carried out a survey to understand the consequences of the increases in price lists in the food sector on the pockets of Italians.
With the same consumption, families will spend around 240 million euros more on typical Easter food products.
- analyzes Codacons - Overall expenditure thus rises from 1.8 billion last year to 2.04 billion euros in 2023. This is due to tensions in the retail price lists of a multitude of foods and raw materials that are inevitable on Italian tables on the occasion of the traditional Easter lunch.
