Palermo, Boom of Foreign Tourists: They Are Almost 70% of the Presences, Expenditures in Increase of 26.9%
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Almost seven out of ten visitors, in Palermo, now carry the signature of visitors from abroad. In the first half of 2026 foreigners reached 69.4% of the total, against 64.8% of the same period of 2025, in a city that exceeded 1 million and 400 thousand total attendances. It is what emerges from the data [...] The article Palermo conquers the world: boom of foreign tourists, over 1.4 million in the first months of 2026 comes from Direct Sicily.
Original news In Palermo the digital transactions attributable to foreign visitors have reached 136 million euros
PALERMO (ITALPRESS) Palermo confirms itself as an increasingly international tourist destination. In the first six months of 2026, according to data provided by the Tourism Observatory of the Sicilian Region, the city registered over 1 million and 400 thousand tourist presences, with a significant increase in the weight of foreign visitors, representing 69.4% of the total, against [...]
This is reflected in the data provided by the Tourism Observatory of the Region. Among the main countries of origin of foreign visitors are Germany, the United States and Poland. The digital transactions attributable to them, calculated to them, amount to 136 million. Lagalla: "Numbers that confirm not only the solidity of the demand but also the ability of Palermo to intercept new flows"
More than 1.4 million visitors in the first half of 2026. Poland leads by increasing visitors. Lagalla: "Tourism generates concrete economic value"
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