Editing Tourism in Italy (section)

===Wedding tourism===
[[File:Amalfi Coast from boat.jpg|thumb|[[Positano]], [[Campania]]]]

Italy is the second-most popular destination in the world for wedding tourism after the [[Maldives]] and before [[Bali]].<ref name="turismo-wedding">{{cite web|url=https://www.ansa.it/canale_viaggiart/it/notizie/speciali/2023/02/01/turismo-wedding-2-milioni-presenze-e-fatturato-599-mln_dcec4ad9-3ab8-4677-a303-6378020ac3a7.html|title=In Italia 11mila matrimoni stranieri, un turismo da 599 milioni|access-date=2 February 2023|language=it}}</ref> In 2022, 11,000 weddings were celebrated in Italy by foreign citizens who came to stay in the country to organize the wedding ceremony.<ref name="turismo-wedding"/> The length of stay of married couples and their guests to the ceremony is on average 3.3 nights.<ref name="turismo-wedding"/> In 2022, there were a total of 619,000 arrivals and over 2 million tourists connected to wedding tourism, with a turnover of around €599 million.<ref name="turismo-wedding"/> Italy hosts three of the top five European honeymoon destinations for wedding tourists: [[Positano]], [[Rome]] and the [[Amalfi Coast]].<ref name="turismo-wedding"/>

The Italian region chosen for marriage in Italy by foreign couples the most was [[Tuscany]], with 21% of the total, followed by [[Lombardy]], [[Campania]], [[Apulia]], [[Sicily]], [[Lazio]] and [[Piedmont]].<ref name="turismo-wedding"/><ref name="wedding-italia"/>

In 2022, 57% of marriages celebrated in Italy by foreign couples were connected to spouses and guests from other European countries, while the main country of origin (29.2%) of foreign couples who decided to celebrate their wedding in Italy was the United States, followed by the United Kingdom, Germany and France.<ref name="turismo-wedding"/><ref name="wedding-italia">{{cite web|url=https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/turismo-states-toscana-sposarsi-e-boom-wedding-italia-AEaJGQfC|title=Turismo, dagli States alla Toscana per sposarsi: è boom del wedding in Italia|access-date=2 February 2023|language=it}}</ref> Domestic wedding tourism is also noteworthy, given that in 2022 there were around 7,160 weddings of Italian couples celebrated in a region other than their own.<ref name="turismo-wedding"/>

Weddings of famous foreign couples include those between [[David Bowie]] and [[Iman Abdulmajid]] in Florence in the American church of San Giacomo, between [[Tom Cruise]] and [[Katie Holmes]] on [[Lake Bracciano]], between [[George Clooney]] and [[Amal Alamuddin]] at [[Palazzo Papadopoli]] in Venice, between [[Kim Kardashian]] and [[Kanye West]] at [[Belvedere (fort)|Forte Belvedere]] in Florence and between [[Justin Timberlake]] and [[Jessica Biel]] at [[Borgo Egnazia]] in Apulia.<ref name="turismo-wedding"/>