Persons participating in tourism for personal purposes - number of tourists

In 2021, Italy's persons participating in tourism for personal purposes increased by 30.3% compared to 2020, reaching 6,588,457.

Italy accounts for 4.3% of the EU-27 total of 152,946,667.

Italy ranks 6th out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 41.5% (from 11,263,009 in 2016).

Source: Eurostat dataset tin00185, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.