Tourism, Bank of Italy: +4,5% spending by Italian travellers abroad. Surplus at 21,2 billion (1% of GDP)

Tourism: in 2024, Italy’s balance of payments confirmed the positive trend observed in the previous three years: the surplus He has reached 21,2 billion euros, equal to 1% of GDP, as in 2019. The figure emerges from theInternational tourism survey conducted by Bank of Italy.

Tourism, the Bank of Italy survey

Among other euro area countries, the tourism trade balance in relation to GDP also increased in Spain and Portugal. Spending by foreign travellers in Italy increased by 5% in nominal terms (by almost 4% in real terms), to a substantially similar extent for travellers from European Union and non-EU countries, in a context of normalisation of tourist flows after the 2020-21 pandemic.

Tourism, the spending of Italian travellers abroad

Revenues from some euro area countries increased the most, mainly Germany e Spain, and fromAsia; for travellers coming fromAmerica, the positive contribution of Canadian tourists more than offset the negative one of Americans.

Even in 2024, the increase in tourism revenues mainly concerned travel for vacation, mostly cultural and at art City, thus confirming the primacy of this typology among the choices of foreign travellers.

La Italian travellers’ spending abroad grew by 4,5% in nominal terms, by 0,9% in real terms. Spending increased mainly in euro area countries and for holiday reasons. Based on provisional data for the first quarter of 2025, the surplus of the tourism balance was 15% higher than in the same quarter of the previous year, with foreign tourist spending in Italy growing by 6,4%.