2022 Edition 38 MONTHLY STATISTICAL BULLETIN Tourist activity kept growing in March In March 2022: • The tourist accommodation sector1 registered 1.6 million guests and 4.0 million overnight stays. These results represent, compared to the same month of the previous year, increases of: » 464.1% in the number of guests (+503.8% in February); » 543.2% in the number of overnight stays (+523.5% in February); Nonetheless, the figures reached in March 2022 were lower than those observed in March 2019 (before the pandemic): decreases of 15.3% in the number of guests and 12.7% in the number of overnight stays; Overnight stays in tourist accommodation establishments, per month Cumulative sum Overnight stays in March 2022 – year-on-year rates of change • The domestic market contributed 1.3 million overnight stays (+191.5%, year-on-year) and the external markets 2.7 million (+1,435.6%); • Compared to March 2019, there were reductions in the number of overnight stays spent by residents (-3.6%) and, more so, in the number of overnight stays spent by non-residents (-16.5%); • The distribution of the total number of overnight stays by type of accommodation was as follows: » Hotel and similar: 82.3%; » Local accommodation: 14.9%; » Rural/lodging tourism: 2.8%. • 31.6% of tourist accommodation establishments were closed or did not handle any guests (36.7% in February; 60.4% in March 2021, and 43.8% in March 2020); 1 It includes three types of accommodation facilities: hotel establishments (hotels, apartment hotels, tourist apartments, tourist villages, pousadas and quintas da Madeira), local accommodation with 10 or more beds (according to the statistical threshold defined by EU Regulation 692/2011) and rural/lodging tourism. 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 106 Overnight stays 2019 2020 2021 2022 Type of accommodation Rate of change compared to March 2021 Rate of change compared to March 2020 Hotels and similar +630,4% -14,4% Local accommodation +330,2% -7,2% Rural/lodging tourism +244,9% +20,2%
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