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For its natural characteristics, and for its rich heritage of history, art and culture, the expression of the landscape and of its inhabitants, Italy is one of the countries that attract the greatest number of international tourists. Tourism may be evaluated primarily by the volume of hotel business and that of other structures: the incidence of arrivals from abroad and of over a third of internal tourism. Over the past few years, roughly 20 million foreign tourists have visited Italy, and some 35 million Italians have made use of hotel and allied services. From a strictly economic viewpoint, foreign tourism brings a consistent volume of currency, as is indicated by the positive results of the balance of tourism which, for the past few years, has shown a surplus of c. 10-12 billion lire. In this way, it tends to compensate the deficit in the balance of foreign trade which has always been negative, reaching a deficit of 23 thousand billion lire in 1985. The recent revival of the national economy, with a vigorous new impulse to productivity, the drop in inflation (down to levels of 20 years ago) and the increase in the gross national product, are reflected in the reduction of the balance of foreign trade which, in 1986, was less than 4 thousand million lire |
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