Greek Tourism 2024 | 7 out of 10 overnight stays in 2024 were in hotels

The hotel continues to be the most preferred type of accommodation for most modern travelers in Europe and in Greece.
According to the most recent overnight stays data presented by Eurostat for the third quarter of 2024, the first ten months of the same year, as well as its estimates for the entire past year, hotel accommodations in Greece, of which 10,000 are hotels, account for the lion's share of total overnight stays.
Eurostat estimates for the whole of 2024 show that Greece recorded a 3.5% increase in total overnight stays in tourist accommodation compared to 2023, amounting to 152.3 million, of which 127.7 million came from international visitors and 24.6 million from domestic visitors. More specifically...
116.3 million overnight stays, or 76.3%, were spent in hotels,
33.8 million, or 22.1%, in holiday homes and other short-term rental accommodation and
2.1 million in campsites.
Consequently, the data indicate that more than 7 out of 10 overnight stays in Greece in 2024 were spent in hotels.
In the EU, there were 2.98 billion overnight stays last year, up 1.8% compared to 2023, according to estimates by the European Statistical Authority, of which 1.88 billion were spent in hotels or similar accommodation. Therefore, the proportion of overnight stays in hotels amounts to 6 out of 10, since their share amounts to 63%.
The high season shaped the picture of the year
In Greece, the ratio of 7 to 10 did not change during the high season, indicative of the fact that it is the one that -still-, due to its size, has a special weight for Greek tourism.
According to data for the third quarter of 2024, 72.9% of all overnight stays concerned hotels and 26% in holiday homes and other short-term rental accommodation. In particular, Eurostat's overnight stays data showed...
62 million overnight stays in hotels and similar accommodation, up 3.3%
22.4 million overnight stays in holiday homes and other short-term rental accommodation, up 3.4%
1.6 million overnight stays in campsites, up 2.4%.
However, at EU level, out of the total of 1.2 billion overnight stays, the hotel sector accounted for 677.4 million, up 1.1% compared to the corresponding quarter of 2023, i.e. it had a share of 54.5% in total overnight stays.
Greece and Spain boost overnight stays in the EU in high season
Regarding the “summer” third quarter of 2024, Eurostat data shows a strong increase in overnight stays in all types of tourist accommodation in Greece by 3.3% or 2.7 million compared to the corresponding quarter of 2023. Their total amounted to 86 million.
Greece had the second largest contribution to the increase, in absolute numbers, of overnight stays in the third quarter in the EU – after Spain (+4.4 million nights). In Europe, the increase amounted to 0.8% with 9.5 million additional nights since the third quarter of 2023, while a total of 1.2 billion nights were recorded.
In addition, as is natural for high season periods, the popular Mediterranean countries had a significant share of total overnight stays. Almost half of the overnight stays of international visitors in the EU (300 million out of a total of 610 million) were recorded in Spain (117.8 million), Italy (107.1 million) and Greece (74.8 million). Our country recorded a 3.5% increase in overnight stays by international visitors, reaching 74.8 million overnight stays, and a smaller (+1.6%) increase in domestic tourism, where 11.3 million overnight stays were recorded.
Finally, in the 10 months of 2024, 147.8 million overnight stays were recorded in Greece. overnight stays, up 3.5% from the first 10 months of 2023. International overnight stays amounted to 125.8 million, recording an annual increase of 3.7%, while domestic overnight stays amounted to 22 million, up 2.1%.
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