Commercial accommodation in August with more beds and fewer overnight stays than last year

In commercial accommodation in August 2023, tourists had access to 422 thousand rooms, apartments, and camping sites, with 1.1 million permanent beds, or 2.1 percent more than in the same month of 2022, while overnight stays in this accommodation in August were 2.3 percent less or 27 million, according to DZS data.

Although with fewer overnight stays, in August 2023, 11.3 percent more tourists visited commercial accommodation facilities than in August 2022, or 4.4 million, of which the majority, or 4 million, were foreign tourists.

This means that the number of foreign arrivals in these facilities was 1.3 percent higher than in last August, but they achieved 2.6 percent fewer overnight stays or 25 million.

Domestic tourists in commercial accommodation numbered 373 thousand, or 2 percent more than in last August, and they also achieved a 1.2 percent increase with 2 million overnight stays.

In the first eight months, 76 million commercial overnight stays

In the first eight months, tourist traffic in commercial accommodation facilities was positive for both domestic and foreign tourists, with a total of 15.3 million arrivals, or 8.2 percent more than in the first eight months of last year.

The achieved 76 million overnight stays represent a 2 percent increase, with foreign tourists typically ‘participating’ with the most overnight stays, totaling 69.5 million, which is also a 2 percent increase compared to the first eight months of last year. In the first eight months, 13.4 million foreign tourists visited these facilities, which is 8.5 percent more than in the same period last year.

Domestic tourist arrivals in these facilities in the first eight months of this year numbered 1.8 million, representing a 6.1 percent increase, and they also achieved 3.5 percent more overnight stays or 6.4 million.

Fewer overnight stays in August from most major markets, increases only from Austria and Hungary

Regarding the arrivals of foreign tourists in commercial accommodation in August this year, the DZS (Croatian Bureau of Statistics) highlights that this is the third consecutive month in which a decline in overnight stays from Germany has been recorded, which constitutes the majority of total foreign overnight stays.

This was also the case in this August when Germans achieved 7 million overnight stays, accounting for 28.1 percent of total foreign overnight stays, but also 12.4 percent less than in August 2022.

In terms of overnight stays in August in commercial facilities, following the Germans are markets with significantly smaller shares in total foreign overnight stays, below 10 percent – Poland, Austria, Slovenia, Italy, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, and Hungary.

Most of them recorded fewer overnight stays in August this year compared to August 2022, except for tourists from Austria, whose overnight stays were slightly higher, by 0.4 percent, and from Hungary, whose overnight stays increased by as much as 20.4 percent.

Short-term accommodation facilities, camps, and hotels with fewer overnight stays

Among commercial facilities, the long-standing trend continued in August 2023, where the most overnight stays were recorded in resort-type facilities and similar short-term accommodation, with 15.2 million or 56.6 percent of total overnight stays.

However, compared to last August, this represents a decrease in overnight stays of 2.1 percent.

Following camps and camping spaces with 6.6 million overnight stays, which is also less than in last August, by 3.5 percent.

After camps, in terms of overnight stays in August, 5.1 million were recorded in hotels and similar accommodations, which also saw a decrease compared to the same month last year, by 1.2 percent.