Editing Milan (section)

===Tourism===
{{Main|Tourism in Milan}}
{{wide image|20170706 MilanoDuomo 9637 (36747362195).jpg|800px|align-cap=center|The [[Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II]], the [[Milan Cathedral]], the [[Royal Palace of Milan]] and the [[Palazzo dell'Arengario]] in [[Piazza del Duomo, Milan|Piazza del Duomo]]}}
[[File:Duomo di milano keski.jpg|thumb|Interior of the [[Milan Cathedral]]. Milan Cathedral is the city's most popular tourist destination.<ref name="slideshare"/>]]

[[Tourism in Milan|Tourism is an increasingly important part of the city's economy]]: with 8.81&nbsp;million registered international arrivals in 2018 (up 9.92% on the previous year), Milan ranked as the world's 15th-most-visited city.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://newsroom.mastercard.com/press-releases/big-cities-big-business-bangkok-london-and-paris-lead-the-way-in-mastercards-2018-global-destination-cities-index/|title=Global Destination Cities Index by Mastercard, 2018 edition|access-date=28 April 2019|archive-date=28 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180928121613/https://newsroom.mastercard.com/press-releases/big-cities-big-business-bangkok-london-and-paris-lead-the-way-in-mastercards-2018-global-destination-cities-index/|url-status=dead}}</ref> One source has 56% of international visitors to Milan are from Europe, 44% of the city's tourists are Italian, and 56% are from abroad.<ref name=slideshare>[http://www.slideshare.net/mtmexperience/tourist-characteristics-and-the-perceived-image-of-milan Infos at slideshare.net]</ref> The most important European Union markets are the United Kingdom (16%), Germany (9%) and France (6%).<ref name="slideshare"/> Most of the visitors who come from the United States to the city go on business matters, while Chinese and Japanese tourists mainly take up the leisure segment.<ref name=slideshare/> Milan is one of the international tourism destinations, appearing among the forty most visited cities in the world, ranking second in Italy after Rome, fifth in Europe and sixteenth in the world.<ref name="ilgiorno"/><ref name="newsroom"/>

The city boasts several popular tourist attractions, such as the Milan Cathedral and Piazza del Duomo, the [[Teatro alla Scala]], the [[San Siro Stadium]], the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, the Castello Sforzesco, the Pinacoteca di Brera and the [[Via Montenapoleone]]. Most tourists visit sights<ref>{{cite web|title=places to go in milan|url=http://milan.citylisting.org/|accessdate=27 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402102008/http://milan.citylisting.org/|archive-date=2 April 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> such as Milan Cathedral, the Castello Sforzesco and the Teatro alla Scala; however, other main sights such as the [[Basilica di Sant'Ambrogio]], the Navigli and the Brera district are less visited and prove to be less popular.<ref name="slideshare.net">{{cite web|url=http://www.slideshare.net/mtmexperience/tourist-characteristics-and-the-perceived-image-of-milan|title=Tourist Characteristics and the Perceived Image of Milan|date=10 February 2009 |publisher=Slideshare.net|accessdate=29 April 2010}}</ref> The city also has numerous hotels, including the ultra-luxurious [[Town House Galleria]], which is the world's first [[star (classification)|seven-star]] hotel according to [[Société Générale de Surveillance]] (''five-star superior luxury'' according to state law, however) and one of [[The Leading Hotels of the World]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.theage.com.au/travel/heaven-at-the-worlds-first-sevenstar-hotel-20090103-79de.html|title=Heaven at Milan's Town House Galleria hotel|work=[[The Age]]|date=7 January 2009|accessdate=21 January 2009|location=Melbourne}}</ref>