(Finance) – Nel first quarter of 2024 the overnight stays in tourist accommodation facilities throughout the EU have been 452.6 million, scoring a 7% increase compared to the same quarter of 2023. January recorded 133.9 million overnight stays (+3% compared to January 2023), February 149.2 million (+6%) and March 169.5 million (+9%). This is what emerges from the monthly data on tourist accommodation until March 2024 published by Eurostat. The results presented were extrapolated from the more detailed article Statistics Explained.
THE foreign visitors they accounted for approximately the 45% of all overnight stays in the first three months of 2024, with large differences between EU countries. The largest share of foreign overnight stays at the beginning of the year was recorded in Malta (91%), Cyprus (87%), Luxembourg (82%) and Austria (78%). In contrast, foreign guests accounted for only a fifth of overnight stays in Poland, Romania and Germany (19%, 20% and 20% respectively).
In the first quarter of 2024 the increase in overnight stays by foreign visitors (+11% compared to the first quarter of 2023) it was much more pronounced than the increase in domestic overnight stays (+4%). The largest increases in overnight stays by foreign visitors were recorded in Cyprus (+23%), Croatia (+22%), Malta and Luxembourg (both +21%). At the other end of the range, the smallest increases were recorded in Lithuania, Poland and Greece (all +3%).