SYN THESISINE@COVID-19, 23-Dec-2021

December . 23 . 2021 SYNTH SIS IN @ COVID-19 www.ine.pt page 7/20 Communication Unit | tel: +351 21 842 61 10 | sci@ine.pt The number of guests and overnight stays accelerate Guests and overnight stays In October 2021: • The tourism accommodation sector 1 registered: » 2.1 million guests, i.e., 115.5% more than in October 2020 (+52.3% in September 2021); » 5.5million overnight stays, which corresponds to an increase of 139.0%over the samemonth of the previous year (+58.5% in September 2021); • The domestic market contributed 2.0 million overnight stays and increased by 65.4% year-on-year, continuing to exceed the levels of the same month of 2019 (+28.2%); • Overnight stays spent by non-residents totalled 3.5 million, which triples the record of October 2020 (+216.6%) and is the highest figure since October 2019, being 26.7% below that month; 1 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 tourist. Guests in tourist establishments, Portugal Overnights stays in tourist establishments, Portugal Overnight stays in tourist accommodation establishments, by NUTS II region – October 2021 In the first ten months of 2021, compared to the same period of the previous year, the total number of overnight stays: • It registered an increase of 31.0%: » +31.9% concerning residents; » +30.0% regarding non-residents. • It registered increases in all regions, namely: » Região Autónoma dos Açores: +114.0%; » Região Autónoma da Madeira: +59.1%; Compared to the January-December 2019 period, overnight stays decreased by 49.9% (-11.0% for residents and -66.3% for non-residents). • In terms of NUTS II regions, Algarve concentrated 29.0% of overnight stays, followed by Área Metropolitana de Lisboa (24.1%), Norte (16.0%), and RA Madeira (11.9%). 0 500,000 1,000,000 1,500,000 2,000,000 2,500,000 3,000,000 October 2019 October 2020 October 2021 Total Non-residents Residents No. No. 0 1,000,000 2,000,000 3,000,000 4,000,000 5,000,000 6,000,000 7,000,000 October 2019 October 2020 October 2021 Total Non-residents Residents 0 500,000 1,000,000 1,500,000 RA Madeira RA Açores Algarve Alentejo AM Lisboa Centro Norte Non_residents Residents