Number of tourism nights increased by 4.8% and sales revenues by 10%
In November 2019, the number of nights spent by international tourists increased by 8.7% and that of nights spent by domestic tourists by 0.8% compared to the same period of the previous year in commercial accommodation establishments (hotels, boarding houses, camping sites, bungalows and community hostels). Considering seasonal and calendar effects, the number of foreign tourism nights grew by 6.4% and of domestic tourism nights declined by 1.1%. Total gross sales revenues rose by 10% at current prices in commercial accommodation establishments.
In November 2019, compared to the same month of the previous year:
The number of international tourist arrivals increased by 6.6% and of international tourism nights by 8.7%. 448 thousand guests spent 1.1 million tourism nights in commercial accommodation establishments. The number of the latter ones increased in each type of accommodation except for camping sites. Foreign guests spent 70% of their tourism nights in the Budapest-Central Danube region, 11% more than in the same month of the previous year.
Domestic arrivals and tourism nights were up by 2.9% and by 0.8% respectively to 473 thousand arrivals and nearly 1 million tourism nights. The value of the latter indicator declined in hotels, boarding houses and camping sites, and dynamically increased in community hostels and bungalows. The most popular regions were Budapest-Central Danubia, Lake Balaton and Northern Hungary, where accommodation establishments accounted for slightly more than half of all tourism nights.
The occupancy rate of hotels increased by 2.4 percentage points to 60.5%.
Total gross sales revenues were up by 10% (to HUF 41 billion), within which accommodation fee revenues grew by 13% (to HUF 23 billion) at current prices.
With Széchenyi Recreation Card, cardholders paid a total of HUF 2.2 billion in commercial accommodation establishments, an increase of 63%.
On 30 November 2019, compared to the same date of the previous year:
11 units fewer, 2,700 commercial accommodation establishments were in operation with 81 thousand available rooms and 228 thousand bed-places.
In January–November 2019, compared to the same period of the previous year:
The number of tourism nights registered by commercial accommodation establishments increased by 0.5% to a total of 29.3 million. International guests spent 1.6% more and domestic guests 0.4% fewer tourism nights in commercial accommodation establishments (14.6 million and 14.7 million respectively).
Room occupancy in hotels increased by 0.4 percentage points to 62.4%.
The total gross sales revenues of commercial accommodation establishments were HUF 513 billion, 8.3% more at current prices.
Summary data, November 2019
| Indicator | Value | Change compared to same period of previous year, % | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November | January–November | November | January–November | |
| Tourism nights spent by international tourists, thousands | 1 088 | 14 605 | 8.7 | 1.6 |
| Tourism nights spent by domestic tourists, thousands | 995 | 14 654 | 0.8 | -0.4 |
| Tourism nights, total, thousands | 2 083 | 29 258 | 4.8 | 0.5 |
| Revenues, total, billion HUFa) | 41 | 513 | 10.0 | 8.3 |
| In hotels: gross average room rate, HUFa) | 20 732 | 22 287 | 6.6 | 7.6 |
| REVPAR, HUFa) b) | 12 535 | 13 901 | 10.9 | 8.3 |
| TREVPAR, HUFa) c) | 22 273 | 23 519 | 8.2 | 8.0 |
| room occupancy rate. % | 60.5 | 62.4 | 2.4d) | 0.4d) |
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.