SYNTHESIS INE@COVID-19, 5 Feb-2021

February . 05 . 2021 SYNTH SIS IN @ COVID-19 www.ine.pt page 3/20 Communication Unit | tel: +351 21 842 61 10 | sci@ine.pt Tourism trips of residents declined by 84.8% regarding destinations abroad and 18.5% domestically In the 3 rd quarter of 2020, residents in Portugal made 6.4 million trips, a year-on-year decrease of 26.7% (-64.9% in the 2 nd quarter of 2020). Of these trips: • 6.2 million (97.5%) were taken on the national territory; • 1.9 thousand (2.5%) had a destination abroad. Decreases were 30.8% in July, 23.5% in August, and 27.9% in September. The main reasons for residents to travel in the 3 rd quarter of 2020 were: • Leisure, recreation, or holidays : 4.4 million trips (70.0% of the total and 22.5% less in year-on-year terms); • Visit relatives or friends : 1.6 million trips (24.4% of the total and 32.6% less than in the same quarter). Trips made for business or professional reasons (171.6 thousand, -50.7%) decreased their relative weight by 1.3 p.p., representing 2.7% of the total. Hotels and similar concentrated 25.0% of overnight stays resulting from tourism in the 3 rd quarter of 2020, which corresponds to a reduction of 2.5 percentage points (p.p.) in their representativeness in total overnight stays. Free private accommodation remained the main accommodation option (61.0% of overnight stays, +4.4 percentage points). In the 3 rd quarter of 2020, there was an average of 8.41 overnight stays on each resident tourist’s trips, representing a year-on-year increase of 7.8% (7.8 overnight stays in the 3 rd quarter of 2019). Tourism trips of residents by month 1 398 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 2018 2019 2020 10 3 Trips More information available at: Tourism demand of residents – 3 rd quarter of 2020 (25 January 2021)