At the end of the year, accommodation turnover was more than a fifth higher
In the last days of the new year, tourism grew strongly, so the turnover of accommodation was at a higher level than previously expected. At Christmas, the number of guest nights at the end of the previous year was exceeded by 21% and at New Year’s Eve by 20%. Even at the last minute, several people, mainly from abroad, decided to welcome the New Year in Hungary. On New Year’s Eve, the accommodation traffic attributable to foreign travelers exceeded the 2022 figures by 27%.
December 24‒26. between 130,000 guests spent a total of 243,000 guest nights in Hungary. International tourists spent 25% more nights and Hungarians 18% more nights away from home during this period, three-quarters of the latter in hotels. Thus, the incomes of the accommodation facilities also exceeded expectations, for example in rural areas they were able to increase their incomes by 23%. In the last days of the year, even more, 216,000 New Year’s Eve revelers filled the accommodations, whose turnover in these days exceeded the previous year’s figures by 20%. Within this, domestic accommodation turnover increased by 15% and foreign accommodation turnover by 27% compared to 2022 data.
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