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by Tiziana Di Giovannandrea 04 July 2020 Italian tourism continues to suffer due to the Coronavirus pandemic and strongly affects the summer 2020 holidays.

Uncertainties, fears and economic difficulties mean that many instead of leaving for the holidays will stay at home.

According to the data of the ENIT bulletin, the Italian National Tourism Agency, only 4 out of 10 rooms in the accommodation facilities booked online  by Italian and foreign tourists. Availability is still bookable in 60% of cases.

According to the telephone survey conducted by ENIT on a sample of almost 4 thousand Italians, Venice is in trouble with 68% of rooms still available while Riminiis recovering with half the nights already booked. The big cities of art resist with a 26% booking failure rate in Florence , 38% in Rome , 39% in Milan , 47% in Naples .

However, the cities of art are penalized by the strong dependence on international tourism which - in an annual projection on 2020 - sees Florence at -63.9% of international arrivals, Naples at -61.5%, Venice at -60, 7%, Rome at -60.5% - comparable with those of Nice-Cannes (-61.8%), Barcelona (-59.2%) and Paris (-57.9%).

The sector relies on domestic tourism. Men are the Italian vacationers of this year (56% of cases) who are between 36 and 55 years old (40%). Graduates (45%) will go on vacation, while only 23% of graduates will take a vacation.

As for families : more than half will organize family trips (54%) and only 38% in pairs. 23.7% of pensioners do not give up on holidays, followed by white-collar workers (23.6%), blue-collar workers (15%) while only 5.4% are managers and 4.2% are freelancers. 

With the opening of the borders by European countries - including France, the Netherlands, Germany and Spain - the flights of the main European airlines are increasing, ENIT says again: Ryanair (+ 46%), Easyjet ( + 22%), Klm (+ 12%) with a positive weekly growth in reservations worldwide (+ 23%) and there is a regional recovery in tourism. Foreign arrivals are not yet stable. Furthermore, as regards airport arrivals in 2020, the losses indicate from January 1 to June 15 a -77.3% compared to 2019.

In the drop from abroad of summer reservations for Italy, there is a slight overall recovery ( from -89.4% to -85.4%). 48% of British people have booked for the next 30 days while 2% express their intention to travel in 6 months. Stop to cancellations from France for our country which stabilizes at -70.7%. The most evident decreases are from China (-85.9%) and the USA (-84.1%).