Overnight stays in non-hotel accommodations (apartments, campsites, rural houses and hostels) added 137 million in all of 2023, a record number exceeding the previous year’s figure by 4.4% and 4.8% of 2019 pre-covid.
According to data published this Thursday by the National Institute of Statistics (INE), last year Flat prices increased by 8.3% on average; camping areas are 5.4% and rural tourism accommodation facilities are 4.9%.
In December alone, 7 million stays were recorded in such establishments; This figure increased by 9.8% compared to the same month last year; Better improvement was seen among non-residents (10.5%) than among residents (8.6%).
During whole year, Overnight stays by non-residents increased by 8.1% The proportion of non-residents is only 0.1%.
Better development of non-residents
In 2023, 50.9 percent of accommodations were in tourist apartments; 34.5% in fields; 9.1% is in rural tourism accommodation and the remaining 5.5% is in hostels. The number of overnight stays in tourist apartments increased by 3.1% in 2023, to 69.77 million for 13.28 million travelers; There was a higher increase in night stays among foreigners (5.5%) than citizens, and this rate decreased by 1.9%. Canary Islands It was the preferred destinationWith more than 25.1 million overnight stays, up 4.2% on 2022, the UK has cemented itself as the first-paying market for tourist apartments, with 15.8 million nights up 5.3% on last year.
Accommodation at campsites increased by 6.2 percent in 2023; This rate was 2.5 percent for residents and 10.9 percent for non-residents. These accommodations accommodated 9.95 million passengers. In this situation, The preferred destination was CataloniaThe main source market, Germany, with 19.2 million stays, an increase of 4.3% compared to 2022 and 22.6% of total overnight stays, an increase of 15.7%.
Inside Overnight stays in rural houses increased by 3.7% In 2023, dynamism among foreigners (15.5% increase) decreased by 0.3% compared to Spaniards. There were 4.6 million passengers in total, with Castilla y León the preferred destination, with 1.8 million overnight stays, up 4.2% from 2022.
Overnight stays shelters increased by 7.4% In the whole of 2023, there was a 3.9% decrease in residents and an almost 20% increase in foreigners. In these accommodations Galicia It was the preferred destinationWith 1.3 million nights stayed.