It will not be the summer of records, as some had hoped in June, after a start to the season far beyond expectations. In July, mainly due to the new peak of Covid, airport chaos and inflation, there was a cooling in the travel intentions of our compatriots and some cancellations.

But after two years of pandemic, the numbers recorded so far and those expected for the next two months still bode well for the Italian tourism industry which, if it does not reach the levels of summer 2019, could still go very close. The most recent data are those of the Confcommercio Tourism Observatory, which at the end of July estimated 27 million Italians leaving for holidays between July and September, 88% to national destinations, mainly to the sea.