Tourism, catering

Tourism is the activity of people who travel from their usual environment to another place, where they spend no more than one year for recreational, business or other purposes, but do not engage in gainful activity. 'Tourism and catering' includes statistics on the transit traffic of border crossings in Hungary, on the demand side of inbound, domestic and outbound tourism as well as on tourists, their journeys and related spending. In addition, it contains statistics on the capacity, guest turnover and revenues of commercial accommodation establishments and non-profit and for-profit other accommodation establishments in Hungary, as well as the characteristics of catering units operated in Hungary.

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March saw a decline in daily passenger traffic at border crossings compared to previous months

On average, 56,000 people crossed Hungary's external Schengen borders every day in March, fewer than in the previous two months and December. Road passenger traffic remained essentially unchanged from same period last year. A robust border regime was in force throughout March this year and from the second half of March last year.

Browse our data on the coronavirus pandemic

It is particularly important to present, in addition to our regular and detailed publications, the current situation of the areas most affected by the pandemic with flash estimates using a limited information base. Our WEEKLY MONITOR presents the economic and social impacts of the pandemic through daily, weekly and monthly updated preliminary data as a collection of interactive diagrams.

In February, food service providers had half as much revenue as a year earlier

Due to epidemiological measures, the sales of food service providers in February (HUF 59 billion) accounted for half of the value not affected by the epidemic a year earlier, calculated at constant prices. The rate of revenue loss was similar in magnitude to the months starting in November 2020, when stricter restrictions on food service providers were reintroduced.

The number of tourism nights decreased by 90% compared to February 2020, Commercial accommodation establishments, February 2021

As a result of border crossing restrictions and Covid-19 protection measures for commercial accommodation, domestic tourists spent 86% fewer tourism nights in commercial accommodation establishments (hotels, boarding houses, camping sites, bungalow complexes and community hostels) compared to the same period of the previous year. International guests spent 94% fewer nights. 68% of all tourism nights were spent by domestic guests. The number of domestic tourism nights increased by 8 thousand compared to the previous month. Total gross sales of commercial accommodation establishments, calculated at current prices, were 90% lower than in February of the previous year.

International trips, Quarter 4 2020

From October to the end of December 2020, Covid-19 border measures reduced year-on-year the number of foreigners visiting Hungary by almost half, with overnight leisure, entertainment and health preservation trips falling to one tenth, trips abroad made by Hungarian residents decreasing by 61% and working trips by barely one tenth.