SEPTEMBER 2022 33 1 It includes three housing segments: hotels (hotels, apartment hotels, tourist apartments, tourist villages, "pousadas and quintas da Madeira"), local accommodation with ten or more beds (according to the statistical threshold laid down in Regulation (EU) 692/2011) and tourism in rural areas or lodging tourism. Guests and overnight stays reached maximum in August, yet with a slight reduction in foreign markets compared to 2019 • The average length of stay in tourist accommodation was 2.93 nights, registering a year-on-year decreased of 0.8% (+2.5% in July): » 2.61 nights for domestic tourists (-6.8% year-on-year); » 3.17 nights for inbound tourists (-0.4% compared to the same month last year); • All NUTS II regions recorded year-on-year increases in overnight stays. Algarve concentrated 32.2% of the total, followed by Área Metropolitana de Lisboa (21.1%), Norte (16.5%) and Centro (11.6%); Compared to August 2019, only Algarve recorded a decrease (-4.5%), and the higher increases occurred in R.A. Madeira (+16.9%) and Norte (+15.9%); In August 2022: • The tourist accommodation sector1 registered 3.4 million guests and 9.9 million overnight stays. These results represent, compared to the same month of the previous year, increases of: » 33.0% in guests (85.4% in July); » 31.9% in overnight stays (90.0% in July); Compared to August 2019, there were increases of 1.2% in guests and 2.8% in overnight stays; • The domestic tourists contributed 3.7million overnight stays (+11.4% year-on-year), while inbound tourists totalled 6.2 million (+86.9%); • Compared to August 2019, domestic tourists’overnight stays increased by 8.2%, and the figure for inbound tourists decreased by 0.2%; • The distribution of total overnight stays by accommodation type was as follows: » Hotels and similar: 81.1%; » Local accommodation: 13.8%; » Rural or lodging tourism: 5.1%. 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 Overnight stays in tourist accommodation establishments, per month Cumulative sum Type of accommodation Change vis-à-vis August 2021 Change vis-à-vis August 2019 Hotels and similar +32.1% +2.8% Local accommodation +39.0% 3.8% Rural/lodging tourism +14.2% +26.6% Overnight stays in August 2022 – year-on-year rates of change
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