Rimini, 18 June 2024 – City tax: the treasure increases… visibly. “Record growth in the first five months of the year regarding tourist presences relating to the Municipality of Rimini”, he announces Garampi Palace.
Not only was there an increase in cash brought in by holidaymakers, but the one which recently ended was “the best month of May for overnight stays in Rimini in the last ten years”. Including 2019, last year before Covid. That is, 436,112 overnight stays in 2024 compared to 393,816 in May 2019. This year there is an increase of 15 percent compared to the 325,610 in May 2023 (the tragic year of the flood in Romagna, which literally ‘broke him in two’). 2022 went (obviously) better, with 377,879 overnight stays. Which were 152,593 in 2021. But here we are in a pandemic, even more rampant in May 2020, with the historic low of only 43,081 overnight stays.
In more detail: the tourist tax data of Municipality of Rimini show an increase of 13 percent compared to 2023 for the two-month period January-February. Plus 4 percent in the two-month period March-April (due to Easter falling earlier this year and therefore in a colder period, among other things with numerous cancellations). And a month of May that is a bang – thanks to events, conferences, private tourists discovering historic Rimini, and the overall favorable weather – and closes with 34 percent more than last year.
Overall, the municipal administration further observes, the tourist tax data from January to June confirm what was already perceived by eye, “both during the winter fairs (Sigep among all) than spring (Wellness), and in some conferences which have seen enormous growth”. A trend that now “finds initial confirmation in the tourist tax data for the January/May 2024 period: more than 15 percent of overnight stays compared to 2023 and complete recovery of the data before Covid (and the disappearance of Russian tourism due to the war) : the first 5 months of the year show an increase of 1 percent compared to 2019, which was also a record year”.
“The numbers they are confirming the visual impressions we have had in recent months and weeks – comments the mayor Jamil Sadeghlvaad – All sectors are growing, from fairs to conferences, from cultural tourism and school trips to that of excursionists. Beyond individual events, the formula of a beautiful and renovated city in its most touristy parts is becoming established: the center with cultural spaces and the sea with the sea park. Now let’s roll up our sleeves because our traditional season begins with summer. We just think that in a few days the Tour de France and therefore the Pink Night. Come on and long live Rimini”. In 2023 the municipal tax burden (essentially municipal taxes) did not increase, but the overall revenue for the Municipality grew. And among the items that made the leap forward possible there was also (and above all) the tourist tax which reached 10.4 million euros last year. Even exceeding the takings for the period pre Covid: in 2019 it reached 9.85 million (in the meantime there was a slight adjustment). Since the tourist tax was established in the capital, it has saved the people of Rimini from paying, in 11 years, around 80 million in municipal taxes, mainly Irpef And Imu. This without, as far as we can see, having a negative impact on tourist presences.
