(ANSA) - Rome, January 16 - Foreign tourists spent a total of
360 million nights in Italy between January and October 2019, up
4.4% on the previous year, and they spent around 40 billion
euros here in that period, a rise of 6%, according to data
presented in the annual plan presented by national tourism
agency ENIT with the culture and tourism ministry on Thursday.
"We want to give a new central role to Italian tourism, which
is a primary economic asset accounting for 13% of GDP and
employing 4.2 million people," said Tourism Undersecretary
Lorenza Bonaccorsi.
"Those figures makes us the (tourism) leader in Europe".
Foreign tourists spent 40bn in 10 mts
Sector generates 13% of GDP, employs 4.2 million people