RIMINI. Gone are the days when Rimini could boast of being the European holiday capital… Today the governor of the Veneto Region Luca Zaia is pushing back: «A historical record figure», he writes on his Facebook page regarding the final balance of 2023, «Cavallino-Tre Porti has surpassed Rimini in terms of attendance and is therefore the first Italian seaside resort!».
«The destination par excellence for camping and open air», continues the Northern League administrator, «thus rises to 5th national place behind the great cities of art (Rome, Venice, Milan, Florence), and in the Top 10 Bibione (seventh), Jesolo (eighth) and Caorle (ninth) also confirm.
«Veneto first region»
«If to the 6.8 million visitors of Cavallino Treporti», continues Zaia in a note, «we add the data of the beaches of Jesolo, Eraclea, Caorle, Bibione we have a Venetian coast with mind-boggling numbers. A 120km coastline on which blue and green flags fly, confirming the great attention towards the environment, high quality of water, services and cleanliness of the beaches. And it is also thanks to these excellences that Veneto stands out at a national level, confirming itself as the first destination in Italy in terms of number of presences, which in 2023 exceeded the record ones of 2019. And thanks to these 72 million presences we are facing a positive start to the season, aware that to continue to grow we need to deseasonalize, with an offer capable of catalyzing interest even in the upstream and downstream months, as many Venetian destinations are doing, becoming attractive 365 days a year”.
