What does Jubilee Year mean for Italy travel?
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Anonymous
| Will it being a Jubilee Year affect the crowd size in Italy, particularly Rome, this year? |
Anonymous
| Absolutely. They are expecting record crowds in Rome, which I expect will translate into other parts of the country as well. |
Anonymous
| Yes, of course. Crowds will be huge. |
Anonymous
| Book now. Hotels, excursions, etc. we booked 3 months ago for June. |
Anonymous
| It means don’t go unless you love crowds |
Anonymous
| Unless you are a serious Catholic, this is a summer to skip Italy. |
Anonymous
| I'm going this spring, but to Lake Como and Venice. |
Anonymous
The whole country? Not sure what say Sicily or Turin have to do with this. |
Anonymous
Everyone has to get funneled into a few airports. There is spillover from the thing in Rome. Dominoes, if you will. |
Anonymous
They do? Why? There are many airports in Europe you could connect through to get to say Venice or Milan, for instance. You wouldn't get within 300 miles of Rome. |
Anonymous
Could you anymore obtuse? Most people don’t just go to Rome….they take on other destinations in Italy. If people have something bringing them to Rome, chances are most of them are going to extend their travels beyond. |
Anonymous
I feel like all.of these predictions are based on assumptions without any data. For instance, there is significant data from past Olympics that it lowers overall tourism to the host country outside of the actual event time period. Not sure why people would assume an entire country which is already very popular for tourism would see some massive increase outside of the specific events/places. What are you basing these predictions on? |
Anonymous
OP again. This is what I'm wondering. We were in Paris before and during the Olympics last summer and crowds were lower than we were expecting. |
Anonymous
| Last Jubilee was in 2015 and it doesn’t appear that tourism spiked that much in 2015. |