GDP, Svimez: Sicily stands out in the South. In Calabria it is Boom Turismo

Also in 2024 the wide differentiation internal to the various territorial distributions in regional growth rates observed in the previous three years is confirmed. In the South, the performances of Sicily stand out (+1.5%) and Campania ( +1.3%), united by the best area dynamics of the added value of the construction, respectively equal to +6.3%and +5.9%. In Sicily, the expansion of the industrial sector (+2.7%) also contributes to the result. This is what emerges from the report “The GDP of the Italian Regions in 2024” of the Svimez. Basilicata (+0.8%), Sardinia (+0.8%) and Abruzzo (+1%) show similar growth rates, however the result of different sectoral dynamics: in the Sardinian economy the expansion concerns the different sectors; In Abruzzo, growth is driven by the services that compensate for the loss of added value of construction; In the Lucanian economy weighs the drop in industrial added value and the lower stimulus offered by the buildings, but the increase in services supports growth. More distant from the southern average, Puglia (+0.6%), braking by the stagnation of the tertiary sector and by a less lively growth of the added value of the buildings than the rest of the South.

Finally, Molise (-0.9%) e Calabria (-0.2%) They should mark a drop in GDP in 2024. In the center – it is still possible to read in the report – to the stagnation of the Marche and the moderate growth of Tuscany (+0.4%) the good performances of Umbria (+1.2%) and, above all, of Lazio, the first Italian region for GDP growth in 2024 (+1.8%) are opposed. In the North-West, only Piedmont (+1.5%) records significant growth, followed by Lombardy (+0.9%), while Liguria (-0.5%) and Valle d’Aosta (-0.1%) record the less sign. The contraction of the product in Veneto (-0.4%) and Emilia-Romagna (-0.2%), the main economies of the area, should bring the North-East data to negative territory (-0.2%).

In the first four months of 2025, Calabria recorded the best tourist presence data of the last five years, reaching 464,240 of the overnight stays (+10.1%) compared to the same period of 2024.
More than significant rise also for arrivals: over 224 thousand tourists with a growth equal to 10.4%.
Historical analysis highlights how the first quarter of 2025 is configured as the most performing period in terms of post-pandic tendential growth, both on the presence front and on that of the evolution of arrivals.
This positive trend, it is interesting to underline, is in absolute contrast to the national data that records, in the same period of time observed, a contraction of both arrivals (-7.2%) and presences (-3,2).
To tow the result of Calabria is priority the foreign component. In particular, international tourism shows relevant growth: non -resident arrivals increase by 45.8% and presences of 50.1%, with an average permanence stable at 3.0 days.
These are the main data contained in the first “Instant Tourism” created by the Tourism Department of the Calabria Region and relating to tourist attendance in the Region in the period January-April 2025.
The internationalization rate is equal to 16.9% (+4.09 percentage points), with a tip of 25.9% in April. In other words, for every 100 tourists who have chosen to spend a holiday in a Calabrian location, 17 come from the foreign market.
The extra-hotel sector, which records an increase of 30.7% of arrivals and 21.0% of attendance, consolidating the diversification trend of the regional accommodation offer, also rapidly expanding.
Among the 10 top players foreign markets include Germany, Poland, France, the United States, Spain, Switzerland, Canada, the United Kingdom, Brazil and the Netherlands representing 59.0% of arrivals and 63.8% of the presences compared to the overall data of regional incoming.
At Canada the primacy for days of average permanence (4.5 days) immediately followed by Germany (4.4 days).