People want to see history, nightlife and museums.
Unfortunately most of that is centered around 4% of the landmass
I did my part by going to Sicily last year /s
People like to do what they think people should be doing in order to appear like a person
I suspect mapping tourists to the USA would require moving that decimal several places to the
rightleftI bet the numbers are very similar in any other tourist heavy country.
Is that odd? I’d expect the majority of Japanese tourists to go to Tokyo, Britain to London, France to Paris, etc
I honestly thought that most tourists go to Italy for the beaches. Not sure if this graphic takes into account how long visitors stay, I’d expect beach holiday tourists to stay longer than city tourists on average.
I think the Italians living in the remaining 96% don’t mind the lack of tourists.
Not Italian but can confirm the relief moving from Rome to a smaller Northern city,
If you’re only going to spend a week in Italy in your life, then you want to see all the iconic Italian stuff.
People who visit the U.S. (not that anyone does, or should anymore) want to see New York, Hollywood, and maybe San Francisco and Miami. No one comes to see Topeka or Cheyenne.
Venice, Rome, and Naples don’t surprise me (well, Naples surprises me a little that it’s that low). But why is South Tyrol so popular?
Maybe it’s popular with German monolinguals and it’s cheaper than Swiss or Austrian ski resorts? I dunno, I’m pulling that out of my ass.
Naples is the entry point for Pompeii and the amalfi coast. So maybe it’s less that people don’t go there and more they don’t stay there as long?
