Tourists numbers of the year 2009 has broken all spirits of Italy Tourism Industry. Figures from last year has been worst in more than a decade for Italy Tourism.

Numbers of tourists in 2009 declined by 3.8% which is almost 10 million less overnight stats and some 3.5 millions less arrival in Italy. Last year Italy Tourism Industry lost over 1.7 Billion Euros which resulted 75,000 people lost their jobs and many more face uncertainty in 2010.

Hotel Industry in Italy also suffered heavy losses and were forced to reduce tariffs by more than 2% which reduced their profits by 700 million euros and cost some 12,000 people or 4.7% of workforce their jobs.

Even after all these sharp decline nobody is confident to say that worse has past for the Italy Tourism. Many experts believe that there is no hope of any recovery in the year 2010.

Italy Tourism is heavily banking on healthy economic recovery in US and rest of the world to help them fill up the losses of last year. Italy Tourism has also shown signs to promote Italy heavily in less recession impacted countries like India, China and Brazil. They are currently working hard to come up with attractive packages for these emerging countries to help them cut losses.

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