Tourism statistics - occupancy rates in hotels and similar establishments

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Data from May 2013. Most recent data: Further Eurostat information, Main tables and Database.

This article focuses on the short-term evolutions in the occupancy of bed places and bedrooms of hotels and similar accommodation establishments in the European Union (EU).

With the adoption of Regulation 692/2011 concerning European statistics on tourism, information on occupancy of hotels and similar establishments has significantly improved. From 2012 onwards, Member States transmit to Eurostat monthly data on net occupancy rate of bedrooms. This is a new variable complementing already existing information on net occupancy rate of bed places.

This article is the first publication of January 2013 data on occupancy rates of bed places and bedrooms.

Figure 1: Net occupancy rates of bed places in hotels and similar establishments (%), January 2013 - Source: Eurostat (tour_occ_nor_bp)
Table 1: Net occupancy rates of bed places in hotels and similar establishments, November 2012 to January 2013 compared with the same period of the previous year - Source: Eurostat (tour_occ_nor_bp) (tour_occ_nim)
Figure 2: Net occupancy rates of bedrooms in hotels and similar establishments (%), January 2013 - Source: Eurostat (tour_occ_nor_br)
Table 2: Net occupancy rates of bedrooms in hotels and similar establishments, January 2013 - Source: Eurostat (tour_occ_nor_br)

Contents

Main statistical findings

Occupancy rates of bed places

Data on occupancy rates of bed places for the most recent reference month available are compared with the same month of the previous year. In addition - and to smoothen fluctuations - data for a three months' period are compared with the same period one year earlier.

Compared with January 2012, net occupancy rates of bed places in the European Union decreased by 0.1 percentage points in January 2013 (see Table 1). Looking at the individual countries' data, in January 2013 these rates ranged from 18.3 % in Romania to 51.0 % in Austria (see Figure 1).

Looking at the three months' period from November 2012 to January 2013, net occupancy rates of bed places in the EU increased by 0.2 percentage points compared with the same period of the previous year (see Table 1). With 40.1 % and 39.8 % respectively, Austria and the United Kingdom were the Member States with the highest occupancy rates in hotels and similar establishments during this period.

Occupancy rates of bedrooms

Data on occupancy rates of bedrooms for the most recent reference month available are compared with the same month of the previous year (please note that comparisons for a three months' period are not available for bedroom occupancy rates).

In January 2013, occupancy rates of bedrooms in hotels and similar accommodation of EU Member States where data is available ranged from 26.4 % in Slovakia to 58.2 % in Austria. More than half of the available bedrooms in Austria have been in use during this month while the corresponding rates in Slovakia, Bulgaria and Portugal were less than 30 % (see Figure 2).

Compared with January 2012, net occupancy rates of bedrooms increased or remained stable in January 2013 in 14 out of 24 Member States where data is available for both years (see Table 2).

Data sources and availability

Data on arrivals for the same reference period are available in Eurobase. For more recent data on nights spent, see Nights spent in tourist accommodation establishments.

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Context

The EU is a major tourist destination, with five Member States among the world’s top ten destinations for holidaymakers, according to UNWTO[1] data. Tourism is an important activity in the EU which has the potential to contribute towards employment and economic growth, as well as to development in rural, peripheral or less-developed areas. These characteristics drive the demand for reliable and harmonised statistics within this field, as well as within the wider context of regional policy and sustainable development policy areas.

Further Eurostat information

Publications

Main tables

Hotels and similar establishments (tin00039)
Bed places in hotels and similar establishments (tin00041)
Nights spent in hotels and similar establishments (tin00043)
Arrivals in hotels and similar establishments (tin00047)

Database

Occupancy in collective accommodation establishments: domestic and inbound tourism (tour_occ)
Nights spent by residents and non-residents (tour_occ_n)
Nights spent in tourist accommodation establishments - national - monthly data (tour_occ_nim)
Nights spent by non-residents in tourist accommodation establishments - 1990-2011 - world geographical breakdown - monthly data (tour_occ_ninrmw)
Nights spent in tourist accommodation establishments - national - annual data (tour_occ_ninat)
Nights spent in tourist accommodation establishments by NUTS 2 regions - annual data (tour_occ_nin2)
Nights spent by non-residents in tourist accommodation establishments - world geographical breakdown - annual data (tour_occ_ninraw)
Nights spent (x1 000) (tour_occ_ni)
Occupancy rates for hotels and similar establishments (tour_occ_or)
Net occupancy rate of bed places in hotels and similar establishments - monthly data (tour_occ_nor_bp)
Net occupancy rate of bedrooms in hotels and similar establishments - from 2012 onwards - monthly data (tour_occ_nor_br)

Dedicated section

Methodology / Metadata

Source data for tables and figures (MS Excel)

Other information

  • With 2012 as reference year:
  • Regulation (EU) No 692/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 July 2011 concerning European statistics on tourism and repealing Council Directive 95/57/EC.
  • Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1051/2011 of 20 October 2011 implementing Regulation (EU) No 692/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning European statistics on tourism, as regards the structure of the quality reports and the transmission of the data.
  • Previous legal acts (concerning reference periods before 2012):
  • Directive 95/57/EC of 23 November 1995 on the collection of statistical information in the field of tourism.
  • Commission Decision 1999/35/CE of 9 December 1998 on the procedures for implementing Council Directive 95/57/EC on the collection of statistical information in the field of tourism.
  • Commission Decision 2004/883/CE of 10 December 2004 adjusting the Annex to Council Directive 95/57/EC on the collection of statistical information in the field of tourism as regards country lists.
  • Directive 2006/110/EC of 20 November 2006 adapting Directives 95/57/EC and 2001/109/EC in the field of statistics, by reason of the accession of Bulgaria and Romania.

External links

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ UNWTO Tourism Highlights - 2012
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