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A working base on Italian demand: where volume sits, when the season peaks, which properties hold the top end, and how each region is reached.

466.2 movernight stays in Italy, 2024ISTAT, private lettings excluded
20regionsincluding two autonomous provinces
400records on fileacross the filled records
26,287keysacross the filled records
124starred tables on file15 of three stars; the 2026 guide holds 394 in Italy
257places on filepublic layer
99events in the calendarpublic layer
14.7 mvisitors to the Colosseumfirst in the MiC register, 2024 — our own order within that register

On this country

RegionsAll 20 Italian regions with overnight stays, seasonality, key places, events and upper-segment hotel stock. Confirmed figures are marked as such.Destinations257 Italian destinations by region and type: cities, coast, lakes, mountains, wine country, archaeology and UNESCO sites, each with its season.Site attendanceAnnual attendance for Italian museums, archaeological parks and monuments. Confirmed rows come from the Ministry of Culture; the rest are flagged estimates.Event calendarThe annual cycle of Italian events: carnivals, opera seasons, historical pageants, fairs and Christmas markets, each tied to a region and a month.Hotel stock400 upper-segment Italian hotels by region, category and size, with MICHELIN Keys and operator. 13 properties hold three Keys.MICHELIN restaurantsItalian MICHELIN tables by region and star count, with the chef and the hotel each sits in. Withdrawn stars stay on file with the year.Access and logisticsItalian airports with 2025 passenger numbers by region, plus typical rail journey times from Rome and a note on how each region is actually reached.Beach clubs13 equipped beach clubs in Italy by region and sea, with day rates, season and the hotel each belongs to. Levels cited from the 2025 guide.Hotel groups48 hotel groups with properties in Italy: origin, brands and the level at which each one decides sales — hotel, group or regional office.

What Italy publishes

RegionStays, 2024Status
Veneto73.5 mconfirmed
Trentino-Alto Adige56.7 mconfirmed
Lazio51.8 mconfirmed
Toscana46.2 mconfirmed
Lombardia45.1 mconfirmed
Emilia-Romagna40.8 mconfirmed
Campania21.4 mconfirmed
Puglia17.9 mconfirmed
Sicilia17.3 mconfirmed
Liguria16.1 mconfirmed
Sardegna15.6 mconfirmed
Piemonte14.4 mconfirmed
Marche10.5 mconfirmed
Friuli-Venezia Giulia10.1 mconfirmed
Calabria8.1 mconfirmed
Abruzzo7.2 mconfirmed
Umbria6.8 mconfirmed
Valle d'Aosta3.7 mconfirmed
Basilicata2.5 mconfirmed
Molise0.5 mconfirmed

All 20 rows come from one source for one year on one perimeter: ISTAT, annual report for 2024, collective accommodation with private non-commercial lettings excluded. Their sum is exactly the published national total, which is what rules out a series stitched from different sources. ISTAT publishes no regional breakdown for the following year, and figures from regional observatories count on a wider perimeter — those are kept separately as indicators and stay out of the headline figures.

What this page does not carry, and why

Source markets are a dash, not an absence. ISTAT does publish overnight stays and arrivals by the guests’ country of residence, but in the annual report Il turismo in Italia and on the same esercizi ricettivi perimeter; the latest issue covers 2024. The series is not here yet: not collected, rather than non-existent. That issue is what closes it. This slot previously carried a 2025 regional rank (“seventh in 1962, second in 2025”); it has been removed, because no 2025 regional series on the ISTAT perimeter exists — as this page itself states — and no reachable publication carries the 1962 rank order.

Dossiers

Three MICHELIN Keys · Hotels with a starred table · Amalfi Coast · Lake Como · Dolomites · Three MICHELIN stars · Three gold umbrellas · Most visited sites