In the second quarter of 2024, there were 780.1 million overnight stays in tourist accommodation across the EU, a slight increase of 0.2% compared with the same quarter of 2023. April recorded 193.6 million nights (-8.7% compared with April 2023), May 272.1 million (+7.9%) and June 314.5 million (-0.1%) It is worth noting that Easter fell in March in 2024 whereas in 2023 that popular tourism weekend was in April.
Foreign visitors (non-residents of the country, EU and non-EU) accounted for approximately half (49.0%) of all overnight stays in the second quarter of 2024, with large differences among EU countries. The biggest share of foreign overnight stays at the beginning of the year was recorded in Cyprus (94.8%), Malta (94.7%) and Croatia (91.0%).
Latvia ranks between Austria and Italy with 60% of all overnight stays by foreigners. June was a particularly good month with 10% more overnight stays by foreigners compared to the previous year.
Latvia's figure is ahead of the equivalent figures from Estonia and Lithuania.
Foreign guests accounted for less than one-fifth of overnight stays in Poland (18.2%), Germany (18.7%) and Romania (19.6%).
"The rise in nights spent by foreign visitors in the second quarter of 2024 (+3.1% compared with the second quarter of 2023) was much more pronounced than the fall in domestic nights (-2.5%). The largest increases in overnight stays by foreign visitors were recorded in Luxembourg (+23.8%), Malta (+13.3%) and Romania (+10.5%). At the other end of the range, the Netherlands (-5.7%), Austria (-4.3%) and Belgium (-1.9%) experienced the biggest decline," said Eurostat.
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