(Finance) – In 2022, at level EUThe 34% of all tourist overnight stays happened in just two months, July and August. In almost 3 regions out of 4 August was the month with the highest concentration of overnight stays (170 out of 242 regions). It has been followed since July in 62 EU regions, covering most of Northern Europe and parts of Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, France, Italy, Hungary and Slovakia. We read it in an in-depth analysis by Eurostat on the topic.
In 15 coastal regions located in Bulgaria, Greece, France, Croatia, Italy, Romania and Sweden, more than 5 in 10 tourist nights were spent in July or August, the two best months in these regions.
The EU region with the highest level of seasonality concentrated in the months of July and August was the Calabria, in Italy, with 64.8%. This is followed by the coastal region of Romania, South-East (64.5%), the Bulgarian regions of Yugoiztochen (64.3%) and Severoiztochen (60.9%) and the Croatian region Jadranska Hrvatska (60.2%). This Croatian region is also one of the most visited regions in the entire EU.
In general, the regions that include the capital tend to attract tourists all year round, both for private and professional reasons, and show a less pronounced seasonality. In 15 of the 22 EU countries that have regional subdivisions, the capital region is the least seasonal region. This is the case for the regions that include Brussels, Sofia, Prague, Copenhagen, Dublin, Madrid, Zagreb, Rome, Vilnius, Budapest, Vienna, Warsaw, Bucharest, Bratislava and Stockholm.