Summer 2022, all the increases in expensive holidays

For the summer of 2022, Codacons denounces a flurry of price increases in the entire tourism and transport sector. According to Istat data revised by the consumer association, Italians’ holiday spending will grow significantly. In the last month there have been very strong increases in tariffs in Italy with record levels for air tickets, whose prices in some cases have more than doubled compared to last year, explains Codacons. Buying a European flight actually costs 127.6% more today than in 2021, while international flights have increased by + 103.3%. Fare increases also for domestic flights (+ 21.4%). But ferry rates are also increasing, rising by 22.7% on an annual basis, while traveling by car costs 25% more than last year if you have a petrol car, and over 33% more. in the case of diesel cars. It is no better for all the other items related to tourism and holidays – analyzes the Codacons again – 8.6% more is spent on international holiday packages, while hotels and hotels have revised up the price lists of +14, 7%. More expensive to consume at the bar or eat at the restaurant (+ 4.6%), while a dinner in a pizzeria costs almost 5% more than in 2021. “Summer 2022 will be remembered as that of expensive holidays, certainly the most expensive in recent decades, and those who go on holiday will have to spend much more to move, sleep out and eat – says the president Carlo Rienzi – At the base of the abnormal increases in the last period, the higher energy costs for tour operators, which are discharged to final consumers through prices and tariffs, and the escalation of petrol and diesel which determines direct effects on the tariffs of the transport sector “.