MTÜ: the July festivals invigorated domestic tourism

By: Trademagazin Date: 2024. 08. 02. 11:48

A three-fold increase in the number of guests and guest nights due to the Balaton Sound, a significant increase in accommodation revenues during the Campus festival and EFOTT, or a week that produces 93 percent of the total monthly guest traffic thanks to the Valley of the Arts – the domestic “festival settlements” show outstanding tourism results. This year, the big summer music and dance events attracted thousands of visitors, which significantly boosted the local economy. The biggest winners of the multi-day events so far have been the accommodations of Gárdony, Debrecen, Kapolcs and Zamárdi, the Hungarian Tourism Agency (MTÜ) told MTI on Friday.

According to MTÜ’s announcement, the 2024 festival season will be July 3-6. was opened by Balaton Sound, which was also hosted by Zamárdi this year. Based on the data of the National Tourist Information Center (NTAK), more than 12,000 guests spent 22,000 nights in the accommodation facilities of the settlement during this time. With this, the number of guests increased by three and a half times, and the number of guest nights almost tripled compared to the same period of the week before the event.

Accommodation providers in Gárdony, Velencé, Sukoró, Pákozd and Kápolnásnyé also experienced growth from July 10-14. between. During the EFOTT festival, which was originally started as the National Tourism Meeting of University Students and College Students, around 3,600 guests spent the night in the settlements’ accommodations. As a result, the outstanding high-season occupancy continued to grow: compared to the previous week, the number of guests increased by more than 10 percent and the number of guest nights in the settlements increased by 20 percent. One of the main winners of the festival is Kápolnásnyék, where during EFOTT the number of guests more than doubled, while the number of nights spent by them increased by 143 percent compared to the previous week, at the same time, the number of guest nights in Sukoró and Gárdony increased by more than 60 percent during the festival. , compared to the previous week.