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The Accommodation Data Programme, managed by Fresh Information Ltd and funded by MBIE, provides information about short-term accommodation activity at national, regional, and lower levels. It estimates the guest nights, occupancy rates and other measures relating to the accommodation industry.

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Short-stay accommodation booked via collaborative economy platforms: first data - products eurostat news.

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29 June 2021

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In 2019, the last year before the COVID-19 pandemic hit the tourism sector, guests spent more than 554 million nights in the EU in accommodation booked via Airbnb, Booking, Expedia Group or Tripadvisor. This means that on an average day, around 1.5 million guests slept in a bed booked through one of these four platforms. 

As a first result of a landmark agreement between the European Commission and the four private collaborative economy platforms, Eurostat published today the very first information on short-stay accommodation offered via these platforms. Unlike the traditional official accommodation statistics collected via business surveys or via local authorities, the data are collected using a previously unexplored channel, namely data on listings and bookings of these platforms.

This first release covers national, regional and city-level data on the number of stays booked and the number of nights spent in 2018 and 2019 in accommodation booked via Airbnb, Booking, Expedia Group and Tripadvisor. Data for 2020 will be available after this summer and data for the first months of 2021 will be released in autumn. In the course of 2021, more detailed data will become available as well.

This article presents a handful of findings from the more detailed  Statistics Explained article .

One in eight guest nights spent in Andalusia, Adriatic Croatia or Catalonia

In 2019, the most popular destinations in the EU for tourists booking their accommodation through one of the four platforms were Spain (112 million guest nights), France (109 million), Italy (83 million), Germany (40 million) and Portugal (33 million). 

The top city destinations were the urban areas of Paris (15.1 million guest nights, or more than 41 000 guests on an average night), Barcelona (11.3 million), Rome (10.4 million), Lisbon (10.5 million) and Madrid (8.3 million). 

The 20 most popular regions in the EU account for nearly half (48%) of the total number of guest nights booked via the platforms. Most of these top 20 regions are in Spain (six regions), France or Italy (five each). Two regions are in Portugal, while Croatia and Hungary each have one region in the top 20. 

In the three most popular EU regions, guests booked more than 20 million nights in 2019: Andalusia (26 million) in Spain, Adriatic Croatia (25 million) and Catalonia (21 million) in Spain. In 2019, these three regions accounted for 13% of the guest nights spent in the EU that were booked via the platforms.

Regional map on short-stay accommodation booked via collaborative platforms in 2019

For more information:

  • European Commission Press Release
  • Eurostat  Statistics Explained article  on short-stay accommodation offered via online collaborative economy platforms
  • Eurostat ‘Experimental statistics’ section dedicated to short-stay accommodation offered via online collaborative economy platforms

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  1. Tourism statistics

    In volume, domestic tourism remained the dominant segment, accounting for 1.56 billion nights spent (53.4 % of the total 2.92 million nights spent in 2023). Table 3: Nights spent in tourist accommodation establishments, by origin of the guest, 2023. Source: Eurostat (tour_occ_nim)

  2. Global trends in length of stay: implications for destination

    LOS is measured on the basis of "the number of nights spent by non-resident tourists in accommodation establishments" (UNWTO 2017: xiv). For example, in this approach, one international tourist spending five nights in a country will account for five overnight stays (or person/guest nights).

  3. Average length of stay of international visitors

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  4. Impact of COVID-19 on tourism demand in European regions

    The results show that the weighted stringency index, the economic control variables and country fixed effects explain 76.1% of the variation in the regions' relative loss in guest-nights. The addition of tourism indicators and destination type increase the R-square by 5.5 percentage points, for a total of 81.6%.

  5. EU tourism nights mark 6.1% yearly increase in 2023

    In 2023, the number of nights spent in EU tourist accommodation reached 2.9 billion. This represents a 6.1% increase compared with 2022 and a 1.4% increase compared with the pre-pandemic 2019. This information comes from monthly data on tourist accommodation up to December 2023 published by Eurostat today. This article presents a handful of findings from the more detailed Statistics Explained ...

  6. The role of disaggregated search data in improving tourism forecasts

    Further, the paper adopts two timeseries variables namely tourist arrivals and guest nights in order to understand the changes due to COVID-19 in tourism demand more comprehensively. Monthly data on international tourist arrivals, guest nights and Google trends from 2004 to 2019 are used to produce regionally disaggregated (Europe, Asia, the ...

  7. Record 40.4 million guest nights

    In the June 2019 year, total guest nights were 40.4 million, up 1.3 percent on the June 2018 year. Annual guest nights first exceeded 40 million in September 2018 and have generally grown over the nine months since then. The latest year included a record 23.2 million domestic guest nights and 17.2 million international guest nights.

  8. 251 Million Nights Spent in EU Through Online Accommodation Platforms

    Thus, the most popular regions were Andalucia in Spain with 6.5 million guest nights, Jadranska Hrvatska in Croatia with 5.5 million guest nights, and Provence-Alpes -Côte d'Azur in France with 5.2 million guest nights. ... In July, Eurostat revealed that the number of nights booked for tourism through accommodation rental platforms Airbnb ...

  9. Accommodation Data Programme

    The Accommodation Data Programme, managed by Fresh Information Ltd and funded by MBIE, provides information about short-term accommodation activity at national, regional, and lower levels. It estimates the guest nights, occupancy rates and other measures relating to the accommodation industry. It replaces Stats NZ's Accommodation Survey which ...

  10. Nights booked via online platforms: 2022 tops 2019

    This corresponds to around +25% compared with the same period in 2021. With this value, platform tourism exceeded the levels (+10%) recorded in the pre-pandemic Q4 2019, when platforms reported around 88 million guest nights. In all of 2022, guests spent around 547 million nights in EU short-term rental accommodation booked via online platforms.

  11. Dynamic Price Response of Inbound Tourism Guest-Nights in Sweden

    Dynamic Price Response of Inbound Tourism Guest-Nights in Sweden Show all authors. Lars Hultkrantz. Lars Hultkrantz. Department of Economics, Uppsala University and Centre for Research in Transportation and Society, P O Box 10044, S-781 10 Borlänge, Sweden ... Denmark and Finland to Sweden in the period 1978-93. The focus is on the dynamic ...

  12. Accommodation survey: September 2019

    Guest nights up for three accommodation types. In the September 2019 month compared with September 2018, guest nights for: hotels were up 1.1 percent to 1,106,000. motels were up 1.3 percent to 928,000. backpackers were up 3.0 percent to 342,000. holiday parks were down 2.6 percent to 395,000. Graph. Table.

  13. Accommodation survey: June 2019

    Guest nights up for 2 of 4 accommodation types. In the June 2019 month compared with June 2018, guest nights for: hotels were up 2.0 percent to 953,000. motels were unchanged at 749,000. backpackers were down 0.8 percent to 282,000. holiday parks were up 4.7 percent to 314,000. Graph.

  14. 13152: Guest nights per tourism region, by type of accommodation and

    13152: Guest nights per tourism region, by type of accommodation and country of residence 2016M01 - 2023M12 About table. About the statistics. Contact. Kristin Aasestad, Statistics Norway +47 40 90 23 44. [email protected]. Boyd Oyier, Statistics Norway +47 40 90 23 54. [email protected]. Updated. 2024-01-31 08:00. Unit. Guest nights:

  15. Hungary Sets New Tourism Record in 2023, With 41 Million Nights Spent

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  16. Tourist arrivals grow by 38% to 240,851 in March

    89.5% of guest nights were in rented accommodation. Tourist arrivals in March reached 240,851 in March, an increase of 38.1 per cent from March last year, the NSO said on Thursday.

  17. PDF Tourism in Amsterdam: Nights, Accommodations and Jobs in The Tourism

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  18. PDF Tourism statistics

    bars in Figure 3). In the EU, an average of 6.2 guest nights were recorded in relation to the overall population of 446.7 million in 2022, 0.2 nights less compared with 2019 when tourism intensity at EU level was 6.4 nights spent per inhabitant (see brown dashes in Figure 3). Tourism statistics - annual results for the accommodation sector 5

  19. New Zealand: total number of international and domestic guest nights in

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  20. Short-stay accommodation booked via collaborative economy platforms

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