6.6 mn Italians travelling over Nov 1

(ANSA) - Rome, October 25 - Some 6.6 million Italians will travel for weekend breaks on Friday November 1, the All Saints holiday leading into a long weekend, hotel group Federalberghi said Friday.
    Some 87.5% of them will stay in Italy, it said.
    Some 11.8% will go abroad.
    Of those staying in the Bel Paese, 31.3% will go to art cities, 24.2% will go to the mountains, and 12.3% the seaside, Federalberghi said.
    The overall turnover will be around 2.21 billion euros, it said.
    That is 7.1% down on last year, the hotel association said.
    The holiday at the beginning of November used to be a day longer.
    But the November 2 All Souls Day holiday was cancelled some years ago.