MORE AND MORE TOURISTS IN COMO

From the world towards Lake Como among the ten favorite provinces arriving from abroad to the art cities and the Lakes even before beaches. These are the engines that move every year millions of foreign tourists to the beautiful country. And thanks to the presence of one of these powerful and effective poles of attraction, province of Como, which boasts one of the Lakes favoured by foreign vacationers, enters the title in the top ten of the Italian provinces that enjoy more of the beneficial influx of foreigners.
The survey, which analyzed the flow of foreign tourists into Italy, taking into account two years, 2008 and 2012, has also compiled the ranking of the ten provinces that attract the largest number of foreigners and that most other benefit from money spent by foreign tourists in hotels, restaurants, bars, shops and so on.
In both rankings Como stands out thanks to its Lake has indeed earned positions between 2008 and 2012, rising from 9° to 7° place regarding the number of foreign tourists who stay in our province.
The 2012 has been a record year in terms of foreign travelers ‘ spending, up from 644 million euro of 2008 to 655 million last year, after losing ground in 2009 (588 million) and especially in 2010 (525 million). So much so that the last annual report on the State of the economy lariana drawn up by the Chamber of Commerce says that in 2012 the spending of foreign travelers in the province of Como, reached its historical maximum to 655 million euros (+4% compared to the previous year) by retrieving the levels of 2008. ”
It’s a real treasure that each year it rains on the Lario thanks to foreigners and that closer to reality than Como emblazoned like Rome, Milan, Venice and Florence. Provinces in the top ten charts drawn up by researchers of Confesercenti-Ref, in which appear Varese, Brescia and Verona, territories that, similarly to How beneficial can count on the presence of a Lake, be it major or the Garda.
As regards the province of Como, foreign tourists during the 2012 stay on the shores of the Lake were over 700 thousand (out of a total of 1,046,603 tourists arrived in the Cove), with an increase of 2.5% from the previous year, for a total of almost 2 million attendance days or nights spent in accommodation Lake Como, from hotels to farmhouse.