The number of visitors to hotels and guesthouses tripled year-on-year in November, but a quarter of the visitors before the pandemic was still missing

Most tourists visited Bratislavský kraj in the penultimate month of the last year. Hotels and guesthouses in Prešovský kraj recorded the highest, up to sevenfold, year-on-year increase in the number of visitors.

In November 2022, the total number of visitors to tourism accommodation establishments in Slovakia increased almost threefold year-on-year, it represented 355,000 visitors. The high increase was mainly influenced by the low comparative base in November 2021, when tourism accommodation establishments in selected districts of Slovakia were closed to regular visitors due to anti-pandemic measures. Despite the higher year-on-year growth, a quarter of visitors was still missing to reach the pre-pandemic values (26.1% decrease). Visitors spent 882,000 nights in tourism establishments, the average length of stay in November was 2.5 nights.

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The number of domestic visitors to hotels, guesthouses and other tourism establishments reached over 239,000 people in November, a year-on-year increase of more than threefold. Compared to the pre-Covid period of 2019, however, hotels and guesthouses still lacked a quarter of visitors. As in October, Žilinský kraj, Prešovský kraj and Bratislavský kraj recorded the highest number of domestic visitors. On the contrary, Nitriansky kraj and Trnavský kraj recorded the lowest number of domestic visitors. In Banskobystrický kraj, domestic visitors recorded the highest share of the total visitors, up to 88%. Bratislavský kraj recorded the lowest share of the domestic visitors, namely 41.7%.

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116,000 foreign visitors also used accommodation services in November, which is a 2.8-fold increase compared to the previous year. Even more than a quarter of foreign visitors was missing to reach the pre-pandemic values. The number of foreign visitors increased, year-on-year, in all regions. The highest, six-fold increase, was recorded by Prešovský kraj. The highest number of foreign visitors visited Bratislavský kraj (57,000) and Žilinský kraj (17,000 foreign visitors) in November. In other regions, foreign visitors did not exceed 10,000 people in November.

In total, 4.5 million visitors stayed in tourism establishments in January - November 2022. Compared to the same period before the pandemic (January to November 2019), a quarter of visitors was still missing. In the first eleven months of this year, 1.5 million foreign visitors used accommodation services. In 2019, their number increased by 36%, i.e. 2.3 million. The number of domestic visitors decreased by 18% compared to 2019, when 3 million domestic visitors used accommodation services since the beginning of the year. Visitors spent a total of 12 million nights in accommodation establishments, in 2019 it was 16.7 million.