Eurostat: the increase in the number of guest nights booked on online platforms is uneven

According to the report, regional data for 2022 of guest nights spent in short-term rental accommodations booked through tourism and accommodation booking platforms Airbnb, Booking, Expedia, or TripAdvisor shows that overall tourism growth has been uneven since the pre-coronavirus period. distributed in Europe.

The numbers of guest nights show that the tourism of rural areas is booming, while the visitation of urban destinations lags behind them. In the rural areas of countries such as France, Poland, or Sweden, the number of reservations is significantly higher than in the case of cities.

Last year, the number of guest nights booked in the EU as a whole increased by approximately 7 percent, rising from 512 million in 2019 to 547 million in 2022. Nine of the ten regions with the highest growth rates were in France, while the other high growth areas were in Poland, Germany and Sweden. Last year’s booking data for Prague (-52 percent), Berlin (-39 percent), Budapest (-34 percent) and Vienna (-25 percent) fell behind the 2019 figures the most, they said.