Monthly Statistical Bulletin, April 2022

2022 Edition 36 MONTHLY STATISTICAL BULLETIN Tourism demand of residents progressively closer to the 2019 figures When considering the year 2021 as a whole, year-on-year: • Residents in Portugal took 17.5 million tourist trips, which corresponds to an increase of 21.6% (-28.4% compared to 2019), while there had been a reduction of -41.1% in the previous year; • Domestic travel increased by 20.2% (-22.7% compared to 2019), after decreasing by 35.7% in 2020; • The number of trips abroad grew by 48.8% (-67.4% compared to 2019), after the 78.1% reduction in 2020; • The number of overnight stays in free private accommodation lost some expression as the main means of accommodation (66.3%, - 2.9 p.p. compared to 2020) when compared to hotels and similar (23.4% of total overnight stays, +2.7 p.p.); • The average number of overnight stays spent during the trips made decreased by 1.5% (from 6.72 nights in 2020 to 6.62 nights in 2021). In the 4th quarter of 2021: • Residents in Portugal made almost double (96.1%, amounting to 4.6 million) the trips they had made in the same period of the previous year, when measures restricting mobility were in force, particularly in November and December, but the figures were still below (-16.5%) those registered in the same quarter of 2019, in which 5.5 million trips were made; • The number of trips increased in all months: 69.0% in October, 111.8% in November, and 110.3% in December; Tourism trips of residents per month • Domestic trips taken by residents increased by 84.0% year-on-year (+55.6% in October, +96.4% in November, and +100.9% in December), amounting to 4.2 million, standing for: » 91.3% of trips made (94.1% in the previous quarter; 88.5% in the 4th quarter of 2019); » 13.9% fewer trips when compared to the 4th quarter of 2019; 0 500 1,000 1,500 2,000 2,500 3,000 3,500 4,000 4,500 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 2019 2020 2021 103 Trips

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