There were almost 1.9 million Norwegian hotel guest nights in June this year. This is a decrease of 3.9 percent from June 2022. Foreign hotel guest nights increased by 18 percent, to 832 000, according to new figures from the accommodation statistics.
- The weakened krone and travel-loving Norwegians and foreigners have given the hotel industry a good start to the summer, says senior advisor Sindre Torgals in Statistics Norway (SSB).
- It looks like Norwegians continue to travel in Norway. In June there were more Norwegian hotel guest nights compared to before the pandemic, while foreign guest nights are not back to their pre-pandemic levels, adds Torgals.
Including guest nights from camping sites, holiday dwellings and youth hostels, there were almost 4.6 million guest nights at commercial accommodation establishments in June 2023, and with that the best June recorded in this statistics history.
Higher revenue at hotels
Are the sales figure for the accommodation activity, not including any breakfast or other extra services, even though they might be included in the price of the stay. Sales are published without any VATat Norwegian hotels was 2.6 billion in June this year, a 16 per cent increase from the same month last year. At the same time, guest nights have increased by 1.8 per cent. The average price per room was NOK 1 456, 13 per cent higher than in June 2022.
Good June at camping sites
There were almost 1.5 million guest nights at Norwegian camping sites in June. This represents a 0.5 per cent decrease from June last year. Norwegian guest nights decreased by 4.9 per cent while foreign guest nights increased by 7,2 per cent to 569 000. A higher number of foreigners has never been measured at Norwegian camping sites in the month of June.
Guest nights at holiday dwelling and youth hostels decreased by 3.0 per cent compared with June last year
In accordance with definitions from Eurostat, refugees should be excluded from tourism statistics and not be considered as guests in the context of tourism statistics when they stay at a tourist accommodation establishment. Refugees from Ukraine cannot be assigned by purpose as holiday, occupation or course, conference. It was not possible to extract all refugees guest nights and some stays are included in the statistics. For accommodation establishments that have more than 25 guest nights from Ukraine during the month, the guest nights have been removed from the statistic. Establishments that are exclusively hosting refugees are not included in the statistics.