In commercial accommodation in August 2023, 422,000 rooms, apartments and camping pitches were available to tourists, with 1.1 million permanent beds, 2.1% more than in the same month of 2022, while overnight stays were down by 2.3%, a drop of €27 million.
Although with fewer overnight stays, August 2023 saw 1.3% more tourists staying in commercial accommodation facilities than in August 2022, i.e. 4.4 million in total, most of whom, or 4 million, were foreign tourists, according to data from the national statistical office (DZS).
Thus, foreign arrivals in these facilities were up 1.3% compared to August last year, but they generated 2.6% less overnight stays, or 25 million.
There were 373,000 domestic tourists in commercial accommodation, or 2% more than in August last year, and they made 2 million overnight stays, an increase of 1.2%.
Fewer overnights in Aug from most major markets, increases only from Austria and Hungary
Regarding the arrival of foreign tourists in commercial accommodation in August of this year, the DZS points out that this was the third month in a row in which there was a decrease in overnight stays by tourists from Germany, who make up the majority of the total number of foreign overnight stays.
This was also the case this August, when Germans generated 7 million overnight stays, which is 28.1% of the total number of overnight stays by foreigners, but also 12.4% less than in August 2022.
In terms of the number of overnight stays in commercial facilities in August, behind the Germans are the markets with a significantly smaller share of total overnight stays by foreigners, of below 10% - Poland, Austria, Slovenia, Italy, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands and Hungary.
Most of them made fewer overnight stays in August of this year compared to August 2022, except for tourists from Austria, who had slightly more overnight stays, 0.4%, and from Hungary, with the number of their overnight stays going up by as much as 20.4%.
(Hina/FaH)
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