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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Revenues of food service establishments in November were lower than in November 2019

Revenues in food service establishments were higher in every month from July to October 2021 than in the same month in 2019, but in November they were again 1.7% lower at current prices than in November 2019. The decline was driven by commercial catering, but the revenue of workplace catering, which is less important in terms of turnover, increased by 12%. Compared to November 2020, when epidemiological measures restricted operations, food service establishments saw a 66% increase in turnover.

The number of tourism nights grew nearly four-fold compared to November 2020 and decreased by 39% compared to the same month of 2019, Commercial accommodation establishments, November 2021

The number of nights spent by domestic guests at commercial accommodation establishments (hotels, boarding houses, camping sites, bungalow complexes and community hostels) increased – mainly due to the low base caused by the introduction of pandemic restrictions – more than two-and-a-half-fold in November compared to the same month of 2020, however, it was 36% below the November 2019 figure, preceding the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. Although the number of nights spent by foreign guests rose eight-fold, it was even so 43% less than in the same period of 2019.

August traffic at border crossing points more than doubled compared to last year

More people crossed Hungary's external Schengen border crossings (Croatian, Serbian, Romanian, Ukrainian) in August than in the previous month. The nearly 7.6 million people crossed in August was more than double the number in August 2020, but still 19% down on August 2019.