The number of nights guests
spent at Italian hotels in the first nine months of this year
was up 2.9% with respect to the same period in 2016, according
to figures presented Thursday by hoteliers' association
Federalberghi at the TTG Incontri event in Rimini.
It said Italian guests were up 2.2% and foreign visitors had
risen by 3.5%.
"It has been an exceptional year for Italian tourism,"
Federalberghi President Bernabò Bocca told ANSA.
"The sector is already, and will continue to be, a lead
player in the recovery and job rises because it cannot be
externalised or mechanised.
"But there must be no resting on our laurels. Italy must live
off tourism and I hope the argument that helping the sector is a
good thing prevails".
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