Trips by Italian residents fell
by 9% to 71.883 million in 2019, ISTAT said Monday.
This interrupted a series of rises that started in 2016, the
stats agency said.
Holiday trips were down 8.4%.
Business trips were down 12%.
In summer at least 37.8% of the population has a holiday,
ISTAT said.
Some 76.2% of trips are to an Italian destination, down 12.8%
on 2018.
Foreign trips accounted for the remaining 23.8% of the total.
ISTAT observed that travel was down even before the
coronavirus emergency.
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