The long weekend of June 2nd officially opens the bathing season in Italy. There will be 14.9 million Italians who will take advantage of the Republic Day to win a few days away from home on vacation. However, many were undecided until the last moment due to the unstable weather, even in Sardinia , and as noted by the Tourism Observatory of Confcommercio Swg on holiday intentions.
With an all-inclusive average budget of 400 euros per capita, the turnover generated will be close to 6 billion euros : a figure substantially in line with the rest of the past "bridges" of 2023.
Between Thursday 1 and Sunday 4 June , 78% of the rooms available online were booked , for a total of 6.2 million presences in accommodation facilities and a turnover for tourism consumption of approximately 800 million euros . This is estimated by Cst for Assoturismo Confesercenti.
In comparison with 2022, the year in which, however, the long weekend of 2 June lasted 5 days, against 4 this year, the level of saturation of the rooms is growing (78% against 75%), but attendance is decreasing (6 2 million in 2023 against 7 million in 2022). A movement that will be more perceived in the cities and in the art centres, in the localities of the lakes, seashores and hills.
Based on the results of the usual survey by the Centro Studi Turistici on online booking portals, in fact, accommodation facilities in art cities reach a saturation of 83% . The same trend for the localities of the lakes which present a saturation of online availability of 84%. Slightly lower values were instead detected for the structures of rural/hilly and seaside localities, respectively of 82% and 80%. The flow of bookings to mountain and spa resorts is less intense: for the former the saturation is 68%, while for the latter it rises to 70%.
(Unioneonline/vl)
