Sziget brought ten percent more guest nights than last year

Around 160,000 foreign guests who arrived during the biggest music festival of the summer spent 10% more nights in Budapest than during last year’s event. Most of the foreign travelers came from the Netherlands this time, followed by the Italians, the British, the Germans and the Spanish. During the festival, nearly 10% of the tourists staying in the capital came from the country, of which about 14% were from the capital themselves. Following them, most people came from Debrecen, Miskolc, Szeged, Pécs and Nyíregyháza to the accommodation in the capital.

Sziget also had a rejuvenating effect on the city’s clientele: 59% of tourists staying in Budapest during the festival were under 34 years old. Among them, the most populous age group was 25-34 years old, with a share of 29%, twenty percent of them were 19-24 years old, and 10% came from young people under 18 years old.