Editing Tourism in Italy (section)

===LGBT tourism===
{{further|LGBT rights in Italy}}
[[File:Capocotta gay beach.jpg|thumb|The [[rainbow flag]] flies in [[Capocotta]], [[Ostia (Rome)|Ostia]] ([[Rome]]), a [[gay-friendly]] beach on the Italian [[Mediterranean Sea]].]]
Italy represented one of the main homosexual male tourist destinations between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century.<ref name="osservatoriolgbt">{{cite web|url=http://www.osservatoriolgbt.eu/archivio/Crescita_Turismo-Turismo_lgbt.pdf|title=Crescita Turismo|access-date=29 March 2022|language=it|page=21}}</ref> In fact, in Italy there were no anti-homosexual laws, which were widespread in the countries of Northern Europe, such as the German [[paragraph 175]] or the sentences suffered by [[Oscar Wilde]] in the [[United Kingdom]].<ref name="osservatoriolgbt"/> Places such as [[Capri]], [[Taormina]], [[Florence]], [[Venice]], [[Rome]] and [[Naples]] were the favourite places of homosexual tourism of the time.<ref name="osservatoriolgbt"/>

This type of tourism disappeared in Italy in the 1950s due to changed political and social conditions, which favoured other types of tourism, such as "family" tourism.<ref name="osservatoriolgbt"/> As a consequence, other Mediterranean cities (such as [[Mykonos]], [[Ibiza]] and [[Sitges]]) took the place of the Italian ones for [[LGBT]] tourism.<ref name="osservatoriolgbt"/>

Today LGBT tourism in Italy is mainly an urban phenomenon, such as in [[Milan]] and [[Rome]] due to the high variety of discos, pubs, bars, cruising, saunas, B&B, restaurants, which meet all needs. of the nightlife.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.webitmag.it/turismo-lgbt-roma-le-preferite_120364/|title=Turismo LGBT, Roma la prima città da visitare|access-date=29 March 2022|language=it}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ilgiorno.it/milano/cronaca/gay-turismo-1.4006360|title=Moda e locali, affari d'oro col turismo gay|access-date=29 March 2022|language=it}}</ref> In summer, however, the first Italian gay resort is [[Gallipoli, Apulia|Gallipoli]] which, with bars, discos, B&B and beaches, attracts people from all over Italy and abroad, taking away the primacy of [[Versilia]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.happydir.com/6-turismo-gay-gallipoli-meta-preferita-in-puglia/|title=Turismo Gay: GALLIPOLI meta preferita in Puglia|access-date=29 March 2022|language=it}}</ref> The naturist beaches of Spiaggia D'Ayala, Campomarino di Maruggio, Torre Guaceto and [[Brindisi]] attract LGBT crowds from all over the world.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gaypugliapodcast.com/faq/the-big-gay-puglia-faq/|title=The Big Gay Podcast from Puglia: Gay Puglia Guide|access-date=29 March 2022}}</ref>