Tourists flooded the accommodation: on a pre-epidemic level, rural tourism
In October, there were 1.1 million guests in the accommodation establishments, 340 thousand foreigners and nearly 740 thousand domestic residents. The number of domestic guest nights increased by 16 points in one year and exceeded 2019 as well. The number of foreign guest nights per million is four times higher than last year, but 42 are below the 2019 result.
Half of the guests stayed in hotels, nearly 30 percent in private and other accommodations in October. Occupancy in four-star hotels was payable at 54 percent.
Zoltán Guller said that the order of the most popular tourist areas is basically unchanged, Lake Balaton is still the most popular, with 430,000 guest nights registered, followed by the Mátra-Bükk area with 240,000, and Budapest and its surroundings as the third most popular destination. The total number of guest nights increased the most in the Bük-Sárvár region, more than doubling compared to last year, and the increase in the Sopron-Fertő region was 70% compared to October last year.
For domestic traffic In October, 2 million guest nights were registered in accommodation establishments outside the capital, which is 35 better than a previous year, but also a 2 percent increase over the record year of 2019. Hungarians spent 1.6 million guest nights in rural accommodation, which was 1.4 million in 2019, and for the record year of 2019, 13 more people rested in rural Hungary in October. Incidentally, 83% traveled to the countryside by Hungarians and 17% by foreigners.
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Tourists also returned to Budapest
The CEO of MTÜ talks that there was an increase in Budapest as well, a total of 762 thousand guest sessions were registered, which is slightly more than three times the previous one, although it was 60 percent of the 2019 data. The use of accommodation is higher every month, which is mainly due to the foreign guest traffic in Budapest.
He added that 30 percent of all guest nights were spent in the capital by those wishing to travel and relax, and the number of foreigners in Budapest continued to grow, with 77 percent of foreigners receiving accommodation in Budapest. Among the main destinations of the one-day visits, he highlighted the surroundings of Budapest, the capital, Lake Balaton, and the area of Tokaj and Nyíregyháza, 60 percent of all one-day visits took place in these four areas.
The turnover of the accommodation was HUF 40 billion, which on October 92 was more than before. 78 percent of sales were generated by hotels. Foreigners spent HUF 20 billion on accommodation in Hungary, which is three times last year’s value. In October 2021, the sales revenue from hospitality exceeded HUF 103 billion, which is an increase of 35 percent compared to last year, but also 12.5 percent compared to 2019. According to the data of the MTÜ, he was in the basic hospitality every Saturday, for almost four billion forints every Saturday, on the last Saturday of the World Hunting Exhibition this amount exceeded five billion.
Speaking about reservations, he said three million guest nights had been booked by November and December so far, 1.7 million by November.
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