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Data extracted in September 2025.

Planned article update: January 2026.

Tourism statistics - nights spent at tourist accommodation establishments

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Data extracted in September 2025.

Planned article update: January 2026.

Highlights

826 million nights spent at tourist accommodation establishments in the EU in Q2 2025, up by 5.1% compared with the same period in 2024 (with a little help from Easter falling in Q2 this year).

Hotel nights grew slower than the other accommodation types in Q2 2025, but exceeded half a billion nights spent (519 million).

EU tourism nights reached a record 1.3 billion nights in the first year half of 2025 (+29 million nights, an increase by 2.3% compared with the first 6 months of 2025).

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Nights spent in tourist accommodation establishments 2024-2025

  • Source: Eurostat (online data code: tour_occ_nim)


This article focuses on the short-term evolutions in the nights spent in tourist accommodation in the European Union (EU). The data from the most recent reference period available are compared with those of the same period of the previous year. The current article discusses the data for Q2 2025 (and the first half of 2025).



826 million tourism nights spent in Q2 2025

In Q2 2025, 826.1 million nights were spent in EU tourist accommodation (see Table 1). This corresponds to 40.2 million more nights (+5.1 %) than those spent in Q2 2024. The significant increase at EU level, and increases in all EU countries for which data was available, can partly be linked to the Easter weekend falling in April this year (whereas one year earlier Easter fell at the end of Q1 in many countries). A double-digit increase was recorded in Slovenia (+14.2 %) (see Figure 1), followed by Malta (+9.9 %), Slovakia (+9.3 %) and Austria (+9.0 %). In absolute figures, the biggest increases were observed in France (+8.7 million nights), Italy (+5.8 million), Spain (+5.6 million) and Germany (4.0 million).

During Q2, the number of nights increased as the summer season approached. From 218.8 million nights spent in April, over 267.7 million in May to 339.6 million in June 2025. Comparing with the same months of the previous year, April and June showed increases (+22.6 million and +23.1 million nights respectively, while May recorded a drop by 5.6 million nights compared to one year earlier. Here too, shifting holiday weeks and long weekends likely had an impact.

Table showing nights spent in tourist accommodation establishments in the EU, individual EU Member States, EFTA countries and (where available) also candidate countries. The number of nights are shown in separate columns for April, May and June and Q2. Other columns show the percentage change comparing with the previous year. For more details please use the link to the source dataset code below the image.
Table 1: Nights spent in tourist accommodation establishments, Q2 2025
Source: Eurostat (tour_occ_nim)


Vertical bar chart showing the percentage change of nights spent in tourist accommodation in the EU, individual EU Member States, EFTA countries and (where available) also candidate countries. Each country has one column, representing a comparison of Q2 with the same quarter of the previous year, as a percentage change. For more details please use the link to the source dataset code below the image.
Figure 1: Nights spent in tourist accommodation establishments, Q2 2025 compared with Q2 2024 (% change)
Source: Eurostat (tour_occ_nim)


Stronger growth of international tourism in Q2 2025

Looking at the breakdown by origin of the guest, in Q2 2025, compared with Q2 2024, international tourism (+21.2 million nights, +5.5%) contributed slightly more to the overall growth by 5.1% than domestic tourism (+18.9 million nights, +4.7%) (see Table 2).

In Q2 2025 international tourism recovered particularly strongly, by 15% or more, in Slovenia (+17.7%), Poland (+16.3%) and Finland (+15.5%) (see Figure 2). More than four out of ten international nights spent in Q2 2025 (168.6 million out of 407.9 million) were observed in Spain (91.4 million) and Italy (77.2 million). Greece and France followed with 40.1 million international nights each. An increase in international tourism was observed in all EU members, except Germany (-3.2%) and Sweden (-1.5%), but in both countries this was compensated by a growth in domestic tourism leading to an overall positive figure for Q2 (+3.3% and (+2.9% respectively).

In absolute terms, domestic tourism accounted for a bit more than half (50.6%) of the total tourism nights spent in the EU in Q2 2025, with 418.2 million nights (compared with 407.9 million international nights). Between April and June, 102.6 million nights were spent in Germany by residents of that country (+4.8% compared with Q2 2024), France recorded 84.3 million nights spent by residents (+5.6%). In only 6 out of 26 EU countries for which data is available, fewer domestic tourism nights were recorded in Q2 2025 than in the same period in 2024.

Table showing the number of nights spent in tourist accommodation establishments by the origin of the guest as domestic guests or international visitors in Q2 2025. Other columns in the table show the percentage change in guests by origin comparing Q2 2025 with the same quarter in the previous year. The data is shown for the EU, individual EU Member States, EFTA countries, that is, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Norway and (where available) also candidate countries. For more details please use the link to the source dataset code below the image.
Table 2 : Nights spent in tourist accommodation establishments, by origin of the guest, Q2 2025
Source: Eurostat (tour_occ_nim)


Vertical bar chart showing the nights spent in tourist accommodation establishments by origin of guest in the EU, individual EU Member States, EFTA countries, namely, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway and (where available) also candidate countries. Each country has two columns, the first represents the number of domestic guests in Q2 2025 compared with the same quarter in the previous year, as percentage change. The second column represents the number of international visitors in Q2 2025 compared with the same quarter in the previous year, as percentage change. For more details please use the link to the source dataset code below the image.
Figure 2: Nights spent in tourist accommodation establishments, by origin of the guest, Q2 2025 compared with Q2 2024
Source: Eurostat (tour_occ_nim)



Hotel nights increased by 18 million in Q2 2025, exceeding 500 million nights

All types of tourist accommodation showed increases for Q2 2025 compared with the same period in 2024 (see Table 3 and Figure 3). 519.5 million nights were spent in hotels and similar accommodation, an increase by 3.6% (+18.0 million nights). This segment accounted for 62.9% of tourist accommodation). Nights spent at holiday and other-short stay accommodation (representing 23.0% of the tourist accommodation market) and the smaller segment of campsites (accounting for 14.1% of nights spent in Q2) both increased by 7.8%.

Table showing the number of nights spent in tourist accommodation establishments by type of accommodation in Q2 2025. Other columns in the table show the percentage change in guests by type of accommodation comparing Q2 2025 with the same quarter in the previous year. The data is shown for the EU, individual EU Member States, EFTA countries, that is, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Norway and (where available) also candidate countries. For more details please use the link to the source dataset code below the image.
Table 3 : Nights spent in tourist accommodation establishments, by type of accommodation, Q2 2025
Source: Eurostat (tour_occ_nim)


Vertical bar chart showing the nights spent by type of accommodation in the EU. The bar chart has three sections representing the types of accommodation. The first section is for hotels and similar accommodation. The second section for holiday and other short-stay accommodation. The third section for camping grounds, recreational vehicle parks and trailer parks. Each section has one column, representing the number of nights spent in the type of accommodation in Q2 2025 compared with 2024, as percentage change. For more details please use the link to the source dataset code below the image.
Figure 3: Nights spent in tourist accommodation, by type of accommodation, Q2 2025 compared with Q2 2024
Source: Eurostat (tour_occ_nim)


EU tourism at a high in the first half of 2025

In the first half of 2025, 1.3 billion nights were spent in tourist accommodation in the EU, the highest figure ever observed for the first 2 quarters of a year (see Table 4). This marked an increase by 29.4 million nights compared with the first half of 2024 (+2.3%). In the first 6 months of the year, foreigners spent 614.1 million nights in tourist accommodation establishments in EU countries, compared with 595.6 million nights in the first half of 2024, a strong growth by +3.1%. Nights spent by domestic visitors in the first half of 2024, grew by 1.7% (664.5 million nights, or 10.8 million more than the same period one year earlier). Looking at the country data, all but one EU members saw in 2025 an increase in nights spent compared with the first half of 2024 (see Figure 4). Only in Ireland, a decrease (-3.5%) was recorded, due to a significant drop in international visitors (-6.1%). The biggest contributors, in absolute terms, to the overall increase by 29.4 million nights compared with the first half of 2024, were Poland (+3.5 million, reaching 44.9 million nights spent), Italy (+3.5 million, reaching 189.3 million) and Spain (+3.0 million, reaching 220.3 million). In the case of Italy and Spain, the growth was driven by international tourism, in Poland domestic tourism contributed most to the overall growth in the first year half.

Table showing the number of nights spent in tourist accommodation establishments by the origin of the guest as domestic guests or international visitors in the first six months of 2025. Other columns in the table show the percentage change in guests by origin comparing first six months of 2025 with the same period in the previous year. The data is shown for the EU, individual EU countries, EFTA countries and (where available) also candidate countries. For more details please use the link to the source dataset code below the image.
Table 4: Nights spent in tourist accommodation establishments, by origin of the guest, January to June 2025
Source: Eurostat (tour_occ_nim)


Vertical bar chart showing percentage change of nights spent in tourist accommodation in the EU, individual EU countries, EFTA countries and (where available) also candidate countries. Each country has one column, representing the number of nights spent in Q1 and Q2 2025 compared with the same period in 2024, as percentage change. For more details please use the link to the source dataset code below the image.
Figure 4: Nights spent in tourist accommodation establishments, first year half 2025 compared with the same period in 2024(% change)
Source: Eurostat (tour_occ_nim)



Data on tourism nights is included in the interactive European Statistical Monitor, which contains monthly and quarterly indicators from a number of statistical areas. The dashboard is updated every month with the latest available data for each indicator.

Source data for tables and graphs

Data sources

This article presents the short-term trends in nights spent in tourist accommodation in the EU, analysing monthly data provided by EU countries.

For a more comprehensive the year-to-year evolution of the number of nights spent in tourist accommodation and a detailed analysis of 2023 annual data, see Tourism statistics - annual results for the accommodation sector. Detailed 2024 annual data will be available in October 2025.

Eurostat also publishes separate series on platform tourism, re-using privately held data obtained directly from major international platforms. For the most recent results, see the article Short-stay accommodation offered via online collaborative economy platforms - monthly data.

Context

The EU is a major tourist destination, with 6 EU countries among the world's top 10 destinations for holidaymakers, according to UN Tourism [1] data. Tourism is an important activity in the EU which contributes to employment and economic growth, as well as to the development of rural, peripheral or less-developed areas. Tourism is estimated to account for 4.5% to the EU's gross value added. These characteristics drive the demand for reliable and harmonised statistics on this activity, as well as within the wider context of regional policy and sustainable development policy areas.

Footnotes

  1. UN Tourism – World Tourism Barometer ↑

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Regulation (EU) No 692/2011 of 6 July 2011 concerning European statistics on tourism and repealing Council Directive 95/57/EC.
Summaries of EU legislation: Tourism statistics
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