The hotel industry in numbers
A monthly report by the Hungarian Hotel and Restaurant Association (MSZÉSZ) on the hotel industry’s performance in the first 9 months of 2019 reveals that there are approximately 60,000 hotel rooms in Hungary. One third of these are in Budapest. In the examined period the gross sales revenue from hotel rooms was HUF 218,438 million, with total gross turnover at HUF 367,937 million. Average hotel room utilisation was at 62.3 percent and the gross average price per room was HUF 22,301.
In the first 9 months of 2019 a total of 17,842,000 guest nights were spent and from these 54.5 percent were foreign guests. 76.6 percent of foreign guests came from Europe, 13.5 percent were Asian and 8.5 percent were American. From our top 10 markets there was growth in comparison with the 2018 level in the number of guests from Romania (+6.1 percent), the UK (+4.7 percent), the USA (+4.3 percent), Poland (+2.1 percent), Russia (+1.7 percent), Israel (+1.1 percent) and the Czech Republic (+1.1 percent), and there was a decrease in the number of guests from Italy (-8.2 percent), Germany (-6.1 percent) and Austria (-4.6 percent).
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