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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Revenue in food service establishments in July this year already exceeded July 2019

The summer period and the recovery in tourism have had a positive impact on the food service sector after the third wave of the pandemic subsided. The turnover of Hungarian food service establishments reached HUF 160 billion in July, the first time since the coronavirus emerged in Hungary that revenues in a month exceeded the same month in 2019 at current prices. The volume of turnover was a quarter higher than in July 2020.

Number of tourism nights up by nearly 10% on July 2020 and down by 36% on same month in 2019, Commercial accommodation establishments, July 2021

The number of nights spent by domestic guests at commercial accommodation establishments (hotels, boarding houses, camping sites, bungalow complexes and community hostels) increased by 8.1% in July compared to the same month in 2020 but was 11% lower compared to July 2019, the corresponding month in the year before the outbreak of the pandemic. The number of nights spent by foreign tourists in Hungary rose by 16% compared to July 2020 and decreased by 70% compared to the same period in 2019. Compared to the previous month, the number of domestic tourism nights was 1.2 million and that of international ones 350 thousand higher.

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Traffic at border crossings in June more than a third higher than in the previous year

With the third wave of the pandemic over by June, foreign nationals were also able to enter Hungary with fewer restrictions. Passenger traffic at the country's external Schengen border crossings reached 3.1 million in June, significantly higher than in the previous months of the year (1.6-2.4 million). This is 38% higher than in June last year, but 44% lower than in June 2019.