Slow recovery of the tourist accommodation sector in 2010

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Industry, trade and services
Population and social conditions
Tourism
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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 6/2011

Slow recovery of the tourist accommodation sector in 2010 Tourism in Europe: first results for 2010   Following two years of negative growth, the Intra-annual data show that the recovery improved European tourist accommodation sector startedthroughout the year. In the period January to April to recover in the year 2010, with nights spent at  %2010, the number of nights spent went up by 1.7 hotels and similar establishments increasing by compared with the same period in 2009, while 2.8 % compared with 2009. The increase at  were recorded for and 5.1 %growth rates of 2.6 % overall EU level was reflected in the national the periods May-August and September-December figures, with increases in all but five of the respectively. Member States for which data were available (see Figure 1). tcvisreperag e –ss ordlee  ty f th ca fo eptadommocth- n ioermbnue y daf  oliho rF tom dheanemped  In the two years of slowdown, resident guests – i.e. trips made by residents of the EU didn’t slow down visitors travelling in their own country - became in 2008 and 2009, but a slight decrease (-1.0 %) more crucial to the sector, but 2010 showed a was observed in 2010. This decrease was slightly stronger revival in the number of nights spent by more pronounced for domestic trips (-1.1 %) than non-residents (+5.1 %) compared with residents for outbound trips (-0.7 %). (+1.1%).

Figure 1: Percentage change in number of nights spent, 2010 compared with 2009

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-5% Hote ls and s im ilar establis hm e nts Total colle ctive accom m odation -10% Notes: Country codes: see ‘Methodological notes’ on page 7; DK, DE, ES, AT, PT, SI, FI, UK (not residents), NO and HR: based on 11 months data; BE, EE, EL, FR, CY, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, RO, SK, SE, UK (residents), LI and CH: based on 10 months data; BG, CZ and IT: based on 9 months data; IE, LU, IS, LI (other collective accommodation) and CH (other collective accommodation): estimate not possible due to limited data availability. EL and FR: ‘Total collective accommodation’ includes only ‘Hotels and similar establishments’ and ‘Tourist campsites’. Source:Eurostat (online data codes :tour_occ_nim,tour_occ_ninat)

 

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