Editing Sardinia (section)

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{{See also|Tourism in Sardinia}}

[[File:Porto Cervo 2.JPG|thumb|Yachts in [[Porto Cervo]]. Luxury tourism has been an important source of income in Sardinia since the 1960s.]]

The Sardinian economy is today focused on the overdeveloped tertiary sector (67.8% of employment), with [[commerce]], [[tertiary sector of the economy|services]], [[information technology]], [[public administration]] and especially on [[Tourism in Sardinia|tourism]] (mainly seaside tourism), which represents the main industry of the island with 2,721 active companies and 189,239 rooms. In 2008 there were 2,363,496 arrivals (up 1.4% on 2007). In the same year, the airports of the island registered 11,896,674 passengers (up 1.24% on 2007).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.regione.sardegna.it/j/v/25?s=107552&v=2&c=3692&t=1 |title=Il turismo in Sardegna è cresciuto anche nel 2008 – Regione Autonoma della Sardegna |publisher=Regione.sardegna.it |access-date=6 May 2009}}</ref>

Due to its isolated and insular location, Sardinia focused part of its economy on the development of digital technologies since the dawn of internet era: the first Italian website, one of the first webmail system and one of the first and largest internet providers (Video On Line) were realised by the [[CRS4]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/2016/04/29/news/pietro_zanarini_e_il_primo_sito_web_italiano_testi_e_link_quanta_novita_in_quella_pagina_-138691701/ |title=Pietro Zanarini and the first Italian website|work=[[La Repubblica]]|date=29 April 2016|access-date=25 November 2017}}</ref><ref>comp.internet.net-happenings, WebMail – Source code release, 30 March 1995.</ref> the first European online newspaper was developed by [[L'Unione Sarda]]<ref>{{cite book|last=Magrini|first=Daniele |title=Sbatti il Web in prima pagina: dati e opinioni|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5z-RCofYrUYC&pg=PA112 |year=2002|publisher=FrancoAngeli |isbn=978-88-464-3561-3|page=112}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://luna.blogautore.repubblica.it/2014/07/06/next-quando-ventanni-fa-a-cagliari-si-inventarono-il-web/ |title=Next, quando vent'anni fa a Cagliari si "inventarono" il web|website=Repubblica.it |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231221080547/https://luna.blogautore.repubblica.it/2014/07/06/next-quando-ventanni-fa-a-cagliari-si-inventarono-il-web/ |archive-date= Dec 21, 2023 }}</ref> and also the first Italian UMTS company was founded on the island. Today Sardinia is the second Italian region, after Lombardy, for investments in [[Startup company|startups]] (owning the 20% of the Italian venture capital).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://startupitalia.eu/60685-20160715-sardegna-venture-capital |title=Perché la Sardegna è la seconda regione per investimenti in startup (e perché c'entra il mare)|date=15 July 2016 |author1=Paolo Fiore |website=StartupItalia |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231212071628/https://startupitalia.eu/60685-20160715-sardegna-venture-capital |archive-date= Dec 12, 2023 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unionesarda.it/articolo/notizie_economia/2016/05/04/startup_in_sardegna_143_aziende_innovative_tra_software_e_informa-2-494065.html |title=Startup: in Sardegna 143 aziende innovative, tra software e informazione. Ma l'Italia è fanalino di coda |website=L'Unione Sarda |date=4 May 2016|access-date=25 November 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402181643/http://www.unionesarda.it/articolo/notizie_economia/2016/05/04/startup_in_sardegna_143_aziende_innovative_tra_software_e_informa-2-494065.html |archive-date= Apr 2, 2019 }}</ref>

Sardinia has many small and picturesque villages, nine of them have been selected by {{lang|it|[[I Borghi più belli d'Italia]]}} ({{langx|en|The most beautiful Villages of Italy}}),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://borghipiubelliditalia.it/sardegna/|title=Sardegna|date=10 January 2017 |access-date=1 August 2023|language=it}}</ref> a non-profit private association of small Italian towns of strong historical and artistic interest,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.repubblica.it/viaggi/2023/01/16/news/borghi_piu_belli_italia_14_nuovi_2023-383794441/|title=Borghi più belli d'Italia. Le 14 novità 2023, dal Trentino alla Calabria|date=16 January 2023 |access-date=28 July 2023|language=it}}</ref> that was founded on the initiative of the Tourism Council of the National Association of Italian Municipalities.<ref>{{Cite web |url = http://borghipiubelliditalia.it/ |title = I Borghi più belli d'Italia, la guida online ai piccoli centri dell'Italia nascosta|access-date=3 May 2018|language=it}}</ref>