{"id":129103,"date":"2025-10-18T00:03:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T00:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/129103\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T00:03:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T00:03:15","slug":"record-number-of-tourism-nights-in-2024-in-the-eu-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/129103\/","title":{"rendered":"Record number of tourism nights in 2024 in the EU – News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2024, the number of nights spent in tourist accommodation establishments<\/a> across the EU<\/a> increased by 2.7% compared with 2023, exceeding 3 billion for the first time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Close to two-thirds (62.8%) of all overnight stays were made in hotels and similar accommodation<\/a>, 23.7% in holiday and other short-stay accommodation<\/a> such as rented apartments and 13.5% in camping grounds, recreational vehicle parks and trailer parks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Among EU countries, Cyprus and Malta registered the highest year-on-year growth in tourism nights, with increases of 14.5% and 14.4%, respectively. Latvia followed at a distance, registering a 7.4% growth rate compared with 2023.<\/p>\n

In contrast, only 2 countries recorded slight decreases compared with 2023: Finland (-0,7%) and France (-0.6%). Belgium and Sweden showed relatively stable figures, with 0.3% increases.<\/p>\n

\"Nights<\/a><\/p>\n

Source dataset: tour_occ_nina<\/a>t<\/p>\n

Majority of tourism nights comes from domestic and intra-EU travel<\/p>\n

Most of the 3.02 billion nights spent across the EU were made by domestic guests from their respective countries (51.9%; 1.57 billion) while the remaining 48.1% (1.45 billion) were made by international guests.<\/p>\n

The majority of nights spent by international guests were tourists from other EU countries (61.6%) and other European countries (21.3%), while only 16.4% of international overnight stays were made by people from other world regions.<\/p>\n

Among them, guests from North America accounted for 7.5% of all international stays, ahead of Asia with 4.9%, Central and South America with 2.3%, Oceania with 1.0% and Africa with 0.8%.<\/p>\n

\"Nights<\/a><\/p>\n

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