A 24% increase in tourism nights at accommodation establishments
In April 2017, the number of nights spent by international tourists increased by 22% and that of nights spent by domestic tourists by 28% compared to the level a year earlier. Average length of stay increased in accommodation establishments, the gross revenues of which grew by 27% calculated at current prices. When evaluating the data, it should be taken into account that this year Easter was in April, while it was in March in 2016. Seasonally adjusted guest turnover measured in tourism nights grew by 14%.
In April 2017, compared to the same month of the previous year:
The number of international tourist arrivals grew by 16% and that of international tourism nights by 22% (to 1.2 million). Nearly two-thirds of the turnover measured in tourism nights was concentrated in Budapest, where a 20% increase was observed. In the territory of the country outside of Budapest, accommodation establishments measured an even bigger increase of 25%.
The number of domestic tourist arrivals increased by 21% and that of tourism nights spent by them by 28% approaching 996,000. The turnover measured in tourism nights achieved double digit growth in each type of accommodation and in each tourism region.
Room occupancy in hotels increased by 8.4 percentage points to 61%.
The total gross revenue of accommodation establishments increased by 27% to HUF 36 billion; within this, accommodation fee revenues increased by 33% (to HUF 22 billion), other revenues by 25% (to HUF 7.5 billion) and catering revenues by 14% (to HUF 6.9 billion).
Széchenyi Recreation Card holders spent 35% more in accommodation establishments. Accommodation establishments operating in April accepted the Recreation Card in a value of HUF 1.5 billion, the vast majority of this amount (89%) was spent in hotels.
On April 30th 2017, compared to the same date of the previous year:
The number of units operating in Hungary (2,662) increased by 18 units, the number of available bed-places was nearly 244 thousand, which was similar to a year earlier.
In January–April 2017, compared to the same period of the previous year:
Accommodation establishments registered 12% more, i.e. a total of 6.9 million tourism nights. International guests spent 14% more (3.6 million) and domestic guests 10% more (3.2 million) tourism nights in accommodation establishments.
Room occupancy in hotels increased on average by 4.5 percentage points to 51.2%.
Accommodation establishments achieved gross revenues of HUF 111.5 billion, i.e. a total of 15% more at current prices.
Summary data, April 2017
| Indicator | Value | Change compared to same period of previous year, % | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April | January–April | April | January–April | |
| Tourism nights spent by international tourists, thousands | 1 234 | 3 636 | 21.5 | 13.9 |
| Tourism nights spent by domestic tourists, thousands | 996 | 3 220 | 27.6 | 9.5 |
| Tourism nights, total, thousands | 2 229 | 6 856 | 24.2 | 11.8 |
| Revenues, total, billion HUF a) | 36.1 | 111.5 | 27.0 | 15.0 |
| In hotels: gross average room rate, HUF a) | 19 552 | 17 575 | 13.0 | 6.7 |
| REVPAR, HUF a) b) | 11 926 | 8 990 | 31.1 | 17.0 |
| TREVPAR, HUF a) c) | 19 794 | 15 887 | 25.7 | 14.5 |
| Room occupancy rate, % | 61.0 | 51.2 | 8.4d) | 4.5d) |
a) At current prices.
b) REVPAR: gross room revenue per available room.
c) TREVPAR: total gross revenue per available room.
d) Change in percentage points.