
The international situation affects summer tourism with a drop of 11.8% for flights to Italy in August compared to 2025.
Despite the difficult international situation, summer 2026 in Italy recorded a drop in the cost of airline tickets of 11.8% in August compared to 2025 and a decrease of 4.8% for travel packages.
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Eurostat surveys on the prices of airline tickets and holiday packages in Europe in August 2026 compared to the previous year.
The difficult international situation has left its mark on the summer holidays of 2026 but with unexpected effects: with the drop also recorded in August, in Italy the entire summer was marked by the drop in the cost of airline tickets, which also fell last month by 11.8% compared to the same month of 2025.
From Eurostat findings, it emerges that the average change in the European Union was slightly negative, -0.4%, remaining decidedly below the general inflation rate (3.2%). If in Spain the decrease was even more accentuated (-15.8%), in other countries buying a plane ticket in August was much more expensive than 12 months earlier: in Turkey and Greece, for example, there was an increase of 18.2% and 16.3% respectively.
Another item of holiday prices, that of travel packages, also fell last month for our country: -4.8% compared to an average growth of 3.2% in the EU (in any case in line with inflation). Also in this case Madrid has a heavier value (-5.2%) with only three other countries (Estonia, Montenegro and Ireland) in negative territory.

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