Tourism, one of the sectors most severely “hurt” by the closures and restrictions due to the pandemic, is returning to breathe a sigh of relief and be a resource for the country and the national economy. In the first six months of 2022, the restart of tourism is also registered on the Net, according to data from the permanent Observatory “Tourism in the Net” of the Registro .it, which - since 2017 - has been analysing the diffusion on the Internet of the various categories related to the tourism sector.
In the first half of 2022, the new .it sites (7,604) in the tourism sector are almost twice as many as last year’s total (4,428): comparing the .it domains registered in the first six months of this year with the total of those registered in 2021, an increase emerges in all sectors analysed by the Observatory in the tourism sector. The study shows that “catering” is growing the most and is at the top of the ranking, rising from over 1,700 .it sites in 2021 to over 3,500 in this first half of the year, with an increase of 106% compared to last year's total. This is followed by the “accommodation” category, which in the first half of this year includes almost 3,200 new .it website names, an increase of 55%, and the “tour operator and transport” category, which with 309 new national websites sees an increase of 21% compared to the 2021 total.
For the sake of completeness, it should be noted that, while there is a general increase in the number of .it sites in 2022, the analysis of “Tourism in the Net” shows an increase in the number of cancellations of .it names registered within the sector analysed: in the first half of 2022, there were about 5,500 cancellations, well over twice the total number of cancellations from last year, which was 2,025.
Despite this last figure, the overall analysis of the Observatory remains more than positive, if we consider that in 2017 - the year in which the monitoring of sites in the tourism sector began - there were a total of 22,992 .it websites, while today there are 147,889 sites related to tourism, with an overall growth of 543%.
05.07.2022 |