Between 2012 and 2023, in Italy, more than one shop in five disappeared.
There are 111 thousand retail outlets that have died and have not been replaced and 24 thousand street trading activities have been lost.
On the other hand, accommodation and catering activities increased (+9,800).
These are the main data of the analysis "Business demography in Italian cities", carried out by the Confcommercio Research Office with the Guglielmo Tagliacarne study centre, which records an "increasingly worrying" commercial desertification of our cities.
The reduction in commercial activities is more accentuated in the historic centers than in the suburbs.
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