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Development of tourism in accommodation establishments in the SR in January 2023
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Development of tourism in accommodation establishments in the SR in January 2023

Last update: 14.03.2023
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Publisher: Statistical Office of the SR
Topic: Sectoral statistics
Domain: Tourism
Publish Date: 14.03.2023

The number of visitors to accommodation establishments doubled compared to the last year, the values before the pandemic were almost reached only in Žilinský kraj

Hotels and guesthouses, after being decimated by the pandemic in the two last years, reached the level of 78% of pre-Covid numbers of visitors in the first month of 2023 (compared to January 2020). The highest number of visitors was recorded in wither resorts in Žilinský and Prešovský kraj.

In January 2023, the total number of visitors to tourism accommodation establishments in Slovakia almost doubled year-on-year, i.e. 348,000 guests. The increase was mainly influenced by a low comparable base in January 2022, when the activity of tourism accommodation establishments was limited by strict anti-pandemic measures. Compared to January 2020, when the number of visitors was not yet affected by the pandemic, accommodation providers still recorded lower number of visitors approximately by a quarter (100,000).

Visitors spent 867,000 nights in tourism establishments, the average length of stay was 2.5 nights in January.

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Two-thirds of the accommodated were represented by domestic visitors to hotels, guesthouses and other tourism establishments, a total of 224,000 people. In January, the highest number of domestic visitors was recorded in Žilinský, Prešovský and Banskobystrický kraj, which are important regions for tourism and focused on winter tourism in the mountains. Together, these three regions accounted for 70% of the number of domestic visitors and, at the same time, 62% of the total number of visitors.

Accommodation services were also used by 125,000 foreign visitors, twice as many as a year ago. The number of foreign visitors increased year-on-year in all regions. The most dynamic 3.5-fold increase was recorded by Košický kraj, which also exceeded the high numbers of the first month of 2019 and 2020. In January, the most foreigners visited Bratislavský kraj (42 thousand), Žilinský kraj (37 thousand) and Prešovský kraj (19 thousand foreign visitors)

Note: The statistics of accommodation establishments contain data from all legal entities and natural persons with assigned registration number, which are kept in the Register of Accommodation Establishments of the Statistical Office of the SR and provide temporary accommodation to visitors of tourism.

Source of data database DATAcube.:

Monthly data – year-on-year comparison (the corresponding period of the last year = 100):

Quarterly data – year-on-year comparison (the corresponding period of the last year = 100):

Monthly data:

Detailed monthly data are available in the central DATAcube. database in Chapter 4 - Sectoral statistics / 4.5 - Tourism / 4.5.1 - Statistics on accommodation establishments / 4.5.1.3 - Monthly data. They contain indicators on the number of visitors for individual months from 2017 up to the level of districts (including data on foreigners in the classification by country of origin) and selected cities and municipalities that are not confidential (more on the methodology in the Methodological Explanatory Notes on Tourism Statistics).

Quarterly data:

At the same time, the Statistical Office of the SR updated the extended quarterly tourism data in the DATAcube. data-base in Chapter 4 - Sectoral statistics / 4.5 - Tourism / 4.5.1 – Statistics on accommodation estab-lishments / 4.5.1.2 - Quarterly data. They contain indicators on the number of visitors, but also on turnover and capacities of accommodation establishments in the SR, including new indicators, such as average number of available bedrooms, net occupancy rate of bedrooms, etc. Data are available at the level of the SR, regions and, more recently, at the level of districts and municipalities from 2017 to 2022.

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