L’Economy of Sicily It’s an improvement, isn’t it? business and employment growth, and mainly tourism and services drive it. More than 105 thousand companies in the sector are found on the island Between April and June 2024, and more than 400 thousand people work in them, with an increase of more than one percent compared to the same period last year. This is the data Unioncamere Sicilia economic observatory Regarding the second quarter of 2024, the analysis of which distinguishes the most developed sectors. They are also growing construction, agriculture and trade, Meanwhile industry decline even if insignificant. More details: 383 285 are active in the palace registers economic realities With a positive balance of 1759 companies, the result of 5849 new registrations against 4090 terminations. the data is insertedThe island is ranked seventh in national ranking for greatest growth, with a growth rate of 0.37%.
Sicily’s economy is driven by tourism
For an active balance between registrations and cancellations the most dynamic state And Catania (452) followed by Palermo (390), Syracuse (274) e Trapani (244). These are the presentations of other provinces. Messina176; Agrigento134; Caltanissetta, 59; Ragusa, 28; last Anna: with both. Sectors with the highest concentration of companies and the highest growth compared to the first quarter of 2024 tourism and services, with 105,578 activities employing 403,096 workers and a growth rates of companies plus by 1.09%; buildingswith 46,905 enterprises and 143,708 employees (0.51% of plus enterprises); Trade, with 125,446 VAT numbers and 324,839 personnel units (plus 0.10%); And Agriculture with 75,956 companies and 126,705 employees. Manufacturing was down very slightly by 0.03%, but still remains a very significant sector. regional production system, with 29121 companies and 137769 employees. It engaged in the Sicilian realms as a whole they rose to 1,170,007.
The trend of public and private investment
“Is that tourism and services“, he observes Pino Pace, president of Union has come to Sicily, “Continues to establish itself as a key driver of the industry’s emergence as a candidateregional economy. The data shows the strong ability of entrepreneurs to respond to the ever-increasing demand, as well as: hospitality and catering, both in relation welfare and social needs, investment in education and training, research and innovation, and health and care and the growing need for care; help people. All this, Pace analyzes, “can lead to the progressive orientation of public and private investments towards this sector, with the aim of giving: greater stability and stability over time to this development trends“.
Energy transition and urban regeneration
“Here stop “Superbonus”“, he analyzes Santa Vaccaro, General Secretary of Unioncamere Sicilia, “does not seem to have slowed down the growth of the construction sector. This is probably due Investments funded by Pnrr which are beginning to show more clearly their positive effects on the area, but also the efforts that our island is making energy transfer, urban regeneration and environmental protection. Finally, the dynamics of growthagriculture, despite the drought, and Tradewhich appears to be facing a crisis that particularly affects small businesses and industrial stability at a time when nationally we are witnessing continued reduction in production“.