Summary
The tourism accommodation activity accounted for 6 million overnight stays in August 2012, slightly less (-0.5%) than in the same month of the previous year. The internal market kept declining (-5.3%), a trend that has been present since a year ago. The performance of the foreign markets was, in most cases, positive, with the emphasis on the German market, the French and the Irish (together changing +12.1%).
The revenue from the activity presented a slight change in terms of year-on-year change rates: a decline in total revenue (-0.8%) and an increase with regard to the revenue from the accommodation (+0.6%).