Tourism Hotels in Spain report record overnight stays and prices
Despite a sharp rise in room rates, hotels in Spain achieved a record number of overnight stays last year. In 2024, the number of overnight stays rose by almost five percent to 363.6 million compared to the previous year's record.
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Hotels in the popular vacation destination are becoming increasingly expensive, according to the statistics authority INE. According to INE, the average room rate achieved last year climbed by 7.4 percent to 121.5 euros. The average occupancy rate nevertheless increased to 61.4 percent. This was 2.2 percent more than in 2023, it said.
Brits and Germans in the lead
Hotel guests from abroad were primarily responsible for the record number of overnight stays, with an increase of 7.5% (to around 242 million). Visitors from the UK and Germany stood out here, with 60.3 and 42.6 million overnight stays respectively. Guests from Switzerland booked a total of 4.4 million overnight stays in Spanish hotels last year.
Meanwhile, the number of overnight stays by domestic customers in Spain only increased by 0.2 percent last year.
The islands are the most popular
With a total of 49.5 million overnight stays (over three and a half million more than in the previous year), the Mediterranean island of Majorca was once again the most popular destination last year. In the ranking of Spain's autonomous communities, which correspond to the German federal states, the Balearic Islands came second with 23.9 percent of all overnight stays by visitors from abroad, behind the Canary Islands, which came top with 26.3 percent.
With a share of more than twelve percent of gross domestic product, the tourism sector is the most important economic factor in Spain, the fourth-largest economy in the EU. It employs more than 2.5 million people.
