The number of foreign and domestic guest nights also increased in December

The number of nights spent by domestic guests increased by 8.3 percent, while the number of nights spent by foreign guests increased by 17 percent. In 2023, the number of guest nights at tourist accommodations was 2.5 percent more than the previous year. In December, 73 percent of guest nights were provided by commercial accommodations, where traffic was 11 percent higher than the previous year. At private and other accommodations, 19 percent more guest nights were registered than a year earlier.

The number of domestic guests increased by 11, and the number of guest nights by 8.3 percent compared to the same month of the previous year. The number of guests was 534 thousand, and the number of guest nights spent was 1.2 million in tourist accommodations; within this, 417,000 guests and 919,000 guest nights were registered at commercial accommodations. 80 percent of the latter were spent in hotels, where the number of guest nights was 14 percent higher than a year earlier. The number of domestic guest nights spent in private and other accommodations increased by 7.0 percent compared to December 2022.