Articles by Michela Ciccarelli

With the lifting of restrictions, flight searches to the United States are exploding. After more than a year and a half of border closures, the United States reopens to non-essential travel: a long-awaited easing of restrictions that finally unlocks the great flow of European outbound travel.

Italy is on the brink of the summer season, or rather, of what will be the second summer season marked by COVID: unlike last year, new tools have been introduced to facilitate travel and vacation safely, but there is still much uncertainty about the flows of this summer, the desired destinations, and the most active markets.

The usual FullTravel Trade update on flight searches to the country indicates that tourist Italy “is not taking off”. Searches show stability (0.3%). This reflects uncertainty and stagnation in recent weeks.

According to data on air travel searches (from the largest international flight metasearch), even for the first months of 2021, Italy’s performance appears encouraging.