'7mn to travel during holiday weekend'

(ANSA) - Rome, October 28 - A reported seven million Italians will be travelling during the upcoming holiday weekend and will spend at least one night at a hotel, hoteliers' association Federalberghi said Friday.
    Nearly 91.5% of Italians will stay in Italy while 8.5% will travel abroad during the long weekend which includes All Saints' Day on November 1, according to a research conducted by Federalberghi on October 17-21 before two new quakes on Wednesday night caused extensive damage in the central Marche and Umbria regions, leaving some 5,000 people homeless.
    Federalberghi President Bernabò Bocca said that, "although the economic situation is still difficult" tourism remains "at the center" of the economy and one of the few sectors "able to produce revenue and jobs".