This paper explores how various cultural activities, involving in-person attendance, have responded to the restrictions imposed by Covid-19 and how they have recovered following the easing of these restrictions. We use the Italian case study as a reference and rely on both national and regional data. 

Our analysis includes data related to ticket sales and statements obtained from surveys on cultural participation. Resorting to the concept of resilience, we compute indicators based on simple descriptive statistics and regression analyses. 

Our study involves the investigation and comparison of resilience measures across different genres of cultural activities and various regions. We also identify socio-economic structural factors associated with varying degrees of resilience of different cultural activities. 

Keywords: Cultural participation; In-person attendance; Resilience; Covid-19. 

JEL Classification: Z11, R11, R15, L82. 

Authors:

• Roberto Cellini 
  University of Catania 
• Tiziana Cuccia 
  University of Catania 
• Alessandro De Cristofaro 
  University of Catania