In 2016, nights spent in tourist accommodation establishments were around 403 million (+2.6% compared with the previous year) and arrivals were 117 million (+3.1%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About 90.3 million of arrivals (+1.4% compared with 2015) and about 267.7 million of nights spent (+1.8%) were recorded in hotels and similar accommodations and the average length of stay was 2.97 nights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In other collective accommodation establishments arrivals (26,7 million) increased by 9.5%, while the number of nights spent (135.3 million) increased by 4.2%, thus resulting in a reduction of the average length of stay (-0.26 nights).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The number of nights spent by residents was 203,5 million, while those by non residents was 199,4 million (respectively +1.6% and + 3.5% compared with 2015).
In 2016, 40.3% of the total nights spent was concentrated in only 50 Italian municipalities. Roma was the top destination with over 25 million of nights spent (6.3% of the total amount), followed by Milano (2.7%) and Venezia (2.6%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2016 holidays were estimated at about 86% of trips made by residents in Italy in collective tourist accomodation establishments of the country (+19.6% over 2015). On the other hand business trips, which were 14% of trips, decreased by 4%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Note<\/strong>: The text has been modified at 3 p.m., 30th October 2017. Where it was written “More than half of trips were booked over the Internet (54.5%), with a higher incidence in case of holiday trips (57.0%)”, in the previous version “57.0%” was incorrectly reported as 78.2%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In 2016, nights spent in tourist accommodation establishments were around 403 million (+2.6% compared with the previous year) and arrivals were 117 million (+3.1%). About […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4082],"tags":[3615,3621,3118,3317,3198,3414,3107,3561,3403,3327,2968,2969,3339,3411,3420],"regione":[],"tema":[4063,4068],"class_list":["post-22661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release","tag-accommodation-establishments","tag-accomodation","tag-arrivals","tag-average-stay","tag-culture","tag-holidays","tag-hotels","tag-hotels-occupancy","tag-leisure-time","tag-nights-spent","tag-flash","tag-report","tag-tourism","tag-tourists","tag-trips","tema-communication-culture-and-trip","tema-services"],"meta_fields":{"data_pubblicazione":"20171030","descrizioneperiodo":"Year 2016","titolobreve":"Tourist flow in Italy","news":"In 2016 nights spent in tourist accommodation establishments totalled around 403 million (+2.6% on 2015)","news_rss":"In 2016, nights spent in tourist accommodation establishments were around 403 million (+2.6% compared with the previous year) and arrivals were 117 million (+3.1%).","sottotitolo":""},"acf":[],"wpml_current_locale":"en_US","wpml_translations":[],"tags-info":[{"id":3615,"label":"accommodation establishments","slug":"accommodation-establishments"},{"id":3621,"label":"accomodation","slug":"accomodation"},{"id":3118,"label":"arrivals","slug":"arrivals"},{"id":3317,"label":"average stay","slug":"average-stay"},{"id":3198,"label":"culture","slug":"culture"},{"id":3414,"label":"holidays","slug":"holidays"},{"id":3107,"label":"hotels","slug":"hotels"},{"id":3561,"label":"hotels occupancy","slug":"hotels-occupancy"},{"id":3403,"label":"leisure time","slug":"leisure-time"},{"id":3327,"label":"nights spent","slug":"nights-spent"},{"id":2968,"label":"statistics flash","slug":"flash"},{"id":2969,"label":"statistics report","slug":"report"},{"id":3339,"label":"tourism","slug":"tourism"},{"id":3411,"label":"tourists","slug":"tourists"},{"id":3420,"label":"trips","slug":"trips"}],"categories-info":[{"id":4082,"label":"Press release","slug":"press-release"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117519,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22661\/revisions\/117519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22661"},{"taxonomy":"regione","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regione?post=22661"},{"taxonomy":"tema","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tema?post=22661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}