ROMA (ITALPRESS) – Foreign tourism from record. In 2025 foreign presences in Italy should have reached 271 million, the maximum ever recorded, with an increase of 6.7% on the previous year. The tourist spending of foreign visitors in our country is estimated at €57.1 billion, confirming the role of the sector as a flyer of the national economy. This is what emerges from the estimates elaborated by CST – Centro Studi Firenze per Assoturismo Confesercenti.
On the territorial level, in the areas of the South and the Islands foreign demand is estimated to increase by 8.7%, equal to approximately 3.3 million more attendances. In the North East foreigners increase by 6.7% (+7 million overnight stays) and in the North West by 6.5% (+3 million attendance). In the regions of the Centre the estimated change is 5.7%, with an increase of foreign attendance of 3.7 million. With regard to the trend of different types of tourism, the overall variation of flows is quite uniform. In particular, compared to the trend of foreign markets, cities and art centers mark an increase of 6.4%, bringing the overall presences of foreigners to 84,5 million. Foreign presences in lakes (+6.7%), with an estimated total of 34,5 million overnight stays. Mountain areas record a +8.5%, for an estimated total of 31.1 million foreign attendance. For marine locations the growth of the foreign market is 6.4%, with total overnight stays that would reach 72.7 million.
Positive trend also for rural and hilly areas (+5.8%) and for the spa (+5.9%), with a total of foreign presences estimated at 12.6 and 7.6 million respectively. Finally, the areas with other interest recorded a change of +6,9%, pushing the overall overnight stays of foreigners to 27,8 million. “Italy confirms itself as an ambitious tourist destination and one of the strongest brands in the international market, able to attract increasing flows thanks to the appeal of our cultural heritage, landscape and food and wine, and to generate an important economic value,” comments Vittorio Messina, President of Assoturismo Confesercenti. “To maintain this trajectory also for 2026 will require infrastructure investments, targeted interventions to raise the quality standards of services and to brake inflationary thrusts, so that the sector can continue to be a fundamental engine for economic growth in the country.”.
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