EU sees record number of tourism nights in 2024

In 2024, the estimated number of nights spent at tourist accommodation establishments in the EU reached 2.99 billion, exceeding the previous year by 53.4 million, or 2%.

The growth in tourism nights was mainly driven by an increase in nights spent by international guests (+58.7 million), while the nights spent by domestic guests recorded a modest decrease (-5.3 million). In 2024, the EU tourism nights were fairly balanced between international (48%) and domestic guests (52%).

This information comes from early estimates on tourism published by Eurostat today. The article presents a handful of findings from the more detailed Statistics Explained article on nights spent at tourist accommodation establishments.

Source datasets: tour_occ_ninat and tour_occ_nim

In terms of accommodation, hotels and similar accommodation recorded 1.9 billion nights (63% of the total), followed by holiday dwellings and other short-stay accommodation with 711 million (24%) and campsites with 396 million (13%).

Tourism numbers on the rise in most EU countries

Compared with 2023, in 2024 the number of nights spent in tourist accommodation rose in nearly all EU countries. The largest increase was recorded in Luxembourg (+22%), Malta (+13%) and Latvia (+7%).

Slight decreases were recorded in France and Belgium (-1% each), while the figures remained stable in Sweden, Finland and Italy.

Source datasets: tour_occ_ninat and tour_occ_nim