Estimates of the cost of a trip to Italy usually rest on sample itineraries. We use the official measurement instead: the Banca d'Italia border survey of travellers leaving Italy, which underlies the travel account of the balance of payments, together with Eurostat price and trip-expenditure data, ECB exchange rates and commercial airfare averages. Foreign overnight visitors spent EUR 139.1 (USD 157) per night in Italy in 2025, excluding the international fare, 2.6% more than in 2024, 32.6% more than in 2019 and 87.0% more than in 1999 in euros. Visitors from the United States spent EUR 178.1 per night, 28.0% above the average, over trips of 10.2 nights, or about USD 2,053 per trip. The type of lodging mattered more than the origin: a night in a hotel or holiday village came with EUR 206.8 of spending and a night in a rented home with EUR 97.1. Accommodation took 45.2% of foreign spending and restaurants 23.0%. Per night, the Aosta Valley (EUR 210.1) came to more than twice Molise (EUR 80.6), and four regions took 56.2% of all foreign spending. Italian hotel prices rose 39.7% between 2019 and 2025, about twice the 20.4% rise in consumer prices, and were 26.0% higher in September 2025 than in January. At an average round-trip fare of USD 937, the flight was 31.3% of an American's average trip. All inputs are public.
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