SYNTHESIS INE@COVID-19, 6 Nov-2020

November . 06 . 2020 SYNTH SIS IN @ COVID-19 More information available at: Tourism demand of residents – 2 nd quarter 2020 (26 October 2020) In the same period, tourist trips made by residents abroad were marginal: 12.4 thousand, representing a 98.5% decrease and corresponding to 0.6% of the total trips taken. This overall value is the result of decreases of 99.2% in April, 99.8% in May, and 97.1% in June. In the 2 nd quarter of 2020, the trips made by residents were distributed according to the following motivations: • Leisure, recreation, or holidays : 1.1 million trips (53.8% of the total and 61.1% less than in the same quarter a year earlier); • Visit relatives or friends : 686.6 thousand trips (34.9% of the total and 67.5% less than in the same quarter of 2019); • Professional or business : 151.3 thousand (7.7% of the total and 71.0% less in year-on-year terms). In the 2 nd quarter of 2020, there was an average of 6.46 overnight stays in the trips of each resident tourist, which corresponds to an increase of 57.2% year-on-year (4.11 nights in the 2 nd quarter of 2019). For this growth, the outcome from the COVID-19 pandemic, which may have forced tourists to remain outside their usual environment, is likely to have been significant. The monthly results were 8.00 nights in April, 5.41 in May, and 6.69 in June, compared with 3.47, 3.45, and 5.56 overnight stays in the same months of 2019. Hotels and similar establishments concentrated 10.8% of overnight stays resulting from tourism trips in the 2 nd quarter of 2020, losing representativeness (-20.7 p.p.). Free private accommodation kept being the main chosen option in terms of accommodation (84.2% of overnight stays), also being the only type of accommodation strengthening its representativeness (+26.7 percentage points). Tourism trips of residents by month 1 137 0 550 1 100 1 650 2 200 2 750 3 300 3 850 4 400 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 2018 2019 2020 3 10 Trips www.ine.pt page 2/15 Communication Unit | tel: +351 21 842 61 10 | sci@ine.pt