Italy has lost over 77,000 shops since 2012 and city centres have become "deserts", retail group Confcommercio said Monday.
The fall has been 14%, it said.
Almost 14,000 street and travelling businesses have also been lost, a drop of 14.8%, Confcommercio said.
Retail businesses as a whole have fallen 17.1%, it said, while accommodations and hospitality firms have dropped by 24.9%.
The association said it foresaw a further "collapse" in tourism for this year, due to the COVID emergency.
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