Camping holidays in the European Union

European Commission Eurostat

Description

More than 350 million nights spent on campsites in 2008
Population and social conditions
Industry, trade and services
Tourism
Target audience: Specialised/Technical

Sujets

• Acampada
• Holiday
• Tourism

Informations

• Publié par: EUROPEAN-COMMISSION-EUROSTAT
• Nombre de lectures: 52
• Langue: English

Extrait

Industry, trade and services Population and social conditions Authors: Christophe DEMUNTER, Chryssanthi DIMITRAKOPOULOU

S t a t i s t i c s i n f o c u s 25/2010

Camping holidays in the European Union: more than 350 million nights spent on campsites in 2008

Camping is an important segment of the European tourism market. In 2008, over 15% of all tourist nights spent in collective accommodation establishments were spent on campsites, corresponding to an estimated 353 million nights. EU residents made more than 23 million holiday camping trips, of which nearly two thirds were spent in their own Member State.

Accommodation capacity on campsites in the European Union corresponded to more than 10 million bed places

Figure 1 gives an estimate of accommodation capacity on campsites in the EU. As a rule of thumb, the number of bed places on a campsite is calculated on the assumption that each pitch accounts on average for four bed places.

Over the period 2000-2008, the number of bed places available on campsites in the 27 Member States of the EU remained relatively stable at 10.2 million.

Figure 1: Accommodation capacityon campsites in the European Union, 2000-2008

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2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Notes: EU 27: Excluding MT for all years, 2000: estimation for FR, 2000 and 2001: excluding EE, 2000 to 2005 estimation for UK. Source: Eurostat(tour_cap_nat)