ROMA (ITALPRESS) – Last December the balance of tourist payments of Italy has marked a surplus of almost 0.7 billion euros, substantially in line with the same month of 2024. Expenditure of foreign travellers in Italy (equal to 3.0 billion) grew by 6.6 percent, while that of Italian travellers abroad (equal to 2.4 billion) increased by 7.3 percent. The Bank of Italy announces this, underlining that in the fourth quarter of 2025, both flows increased from the same period of 2024, respectively 4.1 percent for revenue and 1.6 percent for outputs.
Foreign spending in Italy has grown for both EU residents and extra- EU (of 3.6 and 4.5 percent). Expenditure of Italians abroad has increased only in EU destinations (3.9 percent), in the face of a modest decline in extra- EU (-0.2 percent).
According to provisional figures, the total of 2025 the tourist balance recorded a surplus of 22.8 billion (21.2 in 2024), equal to 1.0 percent of GDP. Revenues and tourist exits increased by 4.8 and 3.1 percent respectively. In both cases the increase is due to the greater number of travellers; the per capita expenditure has instead recorded only a modest increase for foreign tourists in Italy, while it has decreased slightly for Italians abroad.
Foreign spending in Italy has grown both for EU travellers and for extra- EU (4.1 and 5.5 per cent); Italian spending abroad has increased especially in EU destinations (5.1 per cent) and, to a much lower extent, in extra- EU (1,3 percent).
On the revenue side, vacation trips reached 67 percent of total spending; on the side of the exits, although in strong growth, they have a lower incidence (53 percent) in relation to the greater weight of business trips (21 percent, against 11 for foreigners in Italy).
For both flows are still increased the overnight stays in hotels, B&B, tourist villages and farms, whose share on the total has reached 44 percent both for Italians abroad and for foreigners in Italy; the incidence of rented houses is around 24 percent of overnight stays in both cases.
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