Persons participating in tourism for personal purposes - number of tourists

In 2024, Italy's persons participating in tourism for personal purposes decreased by 2.2% compared to 2023, reaching 8,680,063.

Italy accounts for 4.6% of the EU-27 total of 188,318,376.

Italy ranks 5th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 22.1% (from 11,148,922 in 2019).

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