Tourism in Italy is booming, as the latest figures show another record year for the country with more than 420 million visitors in 2017. The 4.4 percent increase in tourist numbers since the last record was set in 2016 is well above the European average, according to new figures from Istat.

Most of Italy's tourists (14.1 percent) come from Germany, the figures show, followed by France, the UK and US, which had about three percent each. Rome remains the most popular destination, attracting almost 27 million of these visitors, or 6.4 percent of the total, followed by Milan, Venice (both 2.8 percent), Florence (2.4 percent) and Rimini (1.8 percent.)