MTÜ: traffic similar to last year is expected at Lake Balaton in September

According to the announcement, the most popular type of accommodation is the hotel, but more and more international guests are looking for holiday homes, boarding houses, as well as private and other accommodation. According to the data, compared to last September, the number of five-star hotel reservations increased by nearly 40 percent, which is also due to the expansion of capacity.

According to the data of the National Tourist Information Center, by September, 142,000 guests had booked a total of 428,000 nights in the Balaton tourist area. According to the registrations of the accommodation service providers, 71 percent of the reservations, i.e. more than 300,000, came from domestic guests, while another 125,000 nights were booked by foreign tourists.

More than half of the September bookings came to the four most popular settlements in the tourist area. Almost a fifth of the guests booked accommodation in Hévíz (18 percent), but Siófok (12 percent), Balatonfüred (12 percent) and Zalakaros (12 percent) were equally popular.