Denomination 2017 2018 2019 2020a 2021b 2022b 2023 2024 2025
Revenue (exports)
Tourism (expenditures of foreigners coming to Hungary) 1,832,412 2,066,780 2,310,110 1,054,342 1,345,559 2,302,982 3,136,737 3,339,784 3,729,373
Correction items related to international trade in services statisticsc -138,075 -195,933 -186,761 -67,988 -82,788 -188,251 -355,262 -394,408 -487,467
Travel services (corrected with the adjustment items of international trade in services) 1,694,337 1,870,847 2,123,349 986,354 1,262,771 2,114,731 2,781,475 2,945,376 3,241,906
Expenditure (imports)
Tourism (expenditures of Hungarians travelling abroad) 816,487 887,728 969,674 404,369 511,947 1,074,615 1,622,763 1,940,904 1,907,513
Correction items related to international trade in services statisticsd -144,300 -172,234 -170,575 -48,150 -71,803 -175,826 -291,429 -361,621 -414,476
Travel services (corrected with the adjustment items of international trade in services) 672,187 715,494 799,099 356,219 440,144 898,789 1,331,334 1,579,283 1,493,037
Balance
Tourism as a whole 1,015,925 1,179,052 1,340,436 649,973 833,612 1,228,367 1,513,974 1,398,880 1,821,860
Correction items related to international trade in services statisticsc 6,225 -23,699 -16,186 -19,838 -10,985 -12,425 -63,833 -32,787 -72,991
Travel services (corrected with the adjustment items of international trade in services) 1,022,150 1,155,353 1,324,250 630,135 822,627 1,215,942 1,450,141 1,366,093 1,748,869

Footnotes

*National Bank of Hungary /NBH/; balance of payments; export, import and balance data of the travel line according to the BPM6 methodology
aDue to the coronavirus epidemic in 2020, emergency measures were introduced, and the border traffic was significantly lower than usual. Because of to the low number of data providers, the reliability of the published data has decreased and they are only to a limited extent comparable with the data of previous periods. As a result of a border closure ordered due to the coronavirus epidemic, data collection on international tourism was suspended in the second quarter of 2020, so the data for the period were made using model estimation.
bDue to the coronavirus epidemic, the number of respondents decreased significantly in the same period of the previous year. Because of it, the reliability of the published data has decreased and they are only to a limited extent comparable to the data of previous periods.
cInternational passanger transport, insurance, valuable and durable consumer goods, illegal services related items.
dInternational passanger transport, valuable and durable consumer goods.
Source: National Bank of Hungary (MNB).

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