A total of 911,049 overnight stays in hotel accommodation were recorded in the whole of the Basque Country in August. In addition, overnight stays increased by 1.6% compared to August 2023.
In August, the hotel establishments of the Basque Autonomous Community (CAV) received… 426,038 touristswhich is 3.6% more than in the same month of 2023, and more than half of them (53.4%) were foreigners.
As reported in a note from the Basque Institute of Statistics, Eustat, the hotels in the CAV were counted in August 911,049 overnight stayshalf of which (50.4%) relates to foreign travellers. Compared to August 2023, overnight stays increased by 1.6% to a total of 911,049.
The average stay In Basque hotels it was 2.14 days, lower than the 2.18 days in August 2023. The average stay refers to the number of days a traveler stays on average in each of the establishments where he stays, and not the total length of your stay.
The room occupancy rate reached 85.8% and prices increased by 5.8% in August 2024.
By territory, in Bizkaia Arrivals were down 1.1% to 188,780, while overnight stays fell by 2.5% (398,380). Instead Alava There were 7.7% more admissions, to 63,344 admissions, and 7.4% more overnight stays, to 127,134. Gipuzkoa the number of admissions grew by 7.5% to 173,914 and the number of overnight stays by 4.3% to 385,535.
As for the capitalsthe number of tourists and hotel overnight stays grew in both Vitoria (12.9% and 11% respectively) and San Sebastián (7.4% and 8.1%), but in Bilbao rates fell by 1.8% and 3.3% overnight stays.
Source: EITB
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