9 mn Italians travelling on June 2 - Garavaglia

(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 31 - Some nine million Italians will be travelling around Italy on the June 2 Republic Day holiday, Tourism Minister Massimo Garavaglia said Monday.
    He added that 10% more Italians had booked summer holidays this year compared to last, 54.5% of the population.
    "But we need to recoup foreign tourists, without whom we lost 27 billion last year," he added, (ANSA).