Tourism in Budapest is developing promisingly – life is starting to return
Exotic tourist paradises, popular among European countries, near and far beaches, and among Hungarians, have announced the lifting of epidemiological restrictions. The desire to travel is strong, that is, the outbound traveler has strengthened, and domestic visitor traffic has typically eased everywhere.
They are afraid of the alarming effect of the price increase, but the landlords are stepping in. |
There is now little chance of repeating last year’s domestic tourist records. and President of the Association of Restaurants.
All this may mean a kind of drop in demand for rural hotelsHe added.
Only in Budapest is the number of foreign guests and guest nights increasing free of charge.
The CSO will announce the fast commercial accommodation in April tomorrow, which does not show what the hotel industry already knows, that May brought great turnover, and the summer pre-bookings are also promising in Budapest.
The situation is so favorable that Budapest has already exceeded the occupancy rate of hotels in Prague, Bratislava, Krakow and Vienna in most segments, and in April it was surpassed only by Warsaw in the region. In the case of Budapest, the mid-range category with 61.7 percent occupancy and the four-star category with 57.9 percent occupancy rates, as well as the 57 percent luxury segment, promise a quick bounce – we found out.
In the three-star category of the revpar indicator reflecting the hotel’s income-generating capacity, Vienna was ahead of Budapest, but was no better than the Hungarian capital in the four- and five-star segments.
The reorganization in Budapest’s foreign traffic has clearly started with confidence, the hotel in the Hungarian capital is becoming more and more busy between January and May, and Csaba Baldauf is expected to be the first in the region to achieve its tourism performance in 2019. The hotel association conducted an internal survey among its members about this year’s expectations and typical trends. According to this, hotels reported a 65-70 percent occupancy rate in May, and there is a chance of room occupations of up to 75 percent on average in the summer, according to a federal forecast.
It is interesting that the developments implemented in Budapest, above all the Lig project, have a very serious and serious positive impact on tourism professionals, as well as the feedback from tour operators and guests.– stated the president of MSZÉSZ, according to whom the density of sights and the most favorable forint exchange rate for foreigners are also favorable for the Hungarian capital.
According to the forecast of market participants, in the rural three- and four-star categories, most of the visible time lags in pre-bookings are still moderate, short-term bookings may receive more emphasis in Hungary this year. Compared to 2019, domestic guest traffic is still more modest compared to 2019, while bookings burst after reopening in May last year, with rural hotels currently lagging behind this base by 5-10 percent.
It is also a possible scenario that due to a significant increase in average prices in the summer of 2021, due to sales in the summer of 2021, in addition to higher sales this year. However, this will hardly be enough to fully compensate for the increased costs.
due to the economic crisis caused by the price rises that erupted due to the Russo-Ukrainian war, there is a drop in demand in the air for the travel market, the question will be to what extent. This is also why there is a great need for the Szép card in tourism, which the hotel industry expects to be re-channeled back into the accommodation market from July. This year, a significant and necessary increase in capacity is that most of the hotels built and renewed with the support of the Kisfaludy 2030 program will be completed, the impact of which will be felt in the higher categories in the countryside.