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Tattoo and piercing studios: 9,600 businesses, more than doubled in ten years

Rome, 10 October 2026 - In Italy, opening a tattoo or piercing business is increasingly an entrepreneurial choice: in less than ten years, the number of businesses in the sector has grown from 3,695 to 9,614, an increase of almost 6,000 and growth of 160%. 

This is the finding of an analysis by Unioncamere-InfoCamere of Business Register data from the Chambers of Commerce, which tracks the sector’s evolution between June 2017 and June 2026.