Tourism growth continued in February, more domestic tourists than in 2019
In February 2022, there were 226 thousand arrivals of tourists, who realised 570 thousand tourist nights in commercial accommodation establishments. It was 121 thousand arrivals and 324 thousand nights more than in February 2021, while compared to February 2019, tourist arrivals decreased by 14.7% and tourist nights by 3.7%.
The County of Istria realised the highest number of tourist nights, 146 thousand, which was 25.7% of the total number of tourist nights. Compared to the same period in 2021, this was an increase of 107 thousand tourist nights. These were followed by the City of Zagreb with 104 thousand nights, which was 18.2% of the total realised tourist nights, and the County of Primorje-Gorski kotar with 95 thousand tourist nights, which was 16.6% of the total realised tourist nights.
The most foreign tourists from Slovenia
Domestic tourists realised 110 thousand arrivals and 236 thousand nights, which was 26 thousand arrivals and 69 thousand nights more than in the previous year’s February. Compared to February 2019, domestic tourist arrivals increased by 16.8% and nights by 22.1%.
Foreign tourists realised 116 thousand arrivals and 334 thousand nights, which was 95 thousand arrivals and 255 thousand nights more than in the same month in 2021. Compared to February 2019, the number of foreign tourist arrivals decreased by 32.1% and nights by 6.1%.
Tourists from Slovenia realised the most arrivals and nights, as much as 31 thousand arrivals
and 74 thousand nights, which accounted for 26.7% of the total foreign tourist arrivals and 22.3% of the total foreign tourist nights. These were followed by the nights realised by tourists from Austria, 11.0%, Germany, 10.6%, Italy, 6.3%, the USA, 6.1%, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, 5.9%.
Where did tourists stay most often?
The most tourist nights were realised in the group Hotels and similar accommodation, as much as 344 thousand nights, which was 60.3% of the total nights realised in commercial accommodation in February 2022.
Tourists had 1 621 accommodation establishments and 6 193 households that provide accommodation services at their disposal in February 2022, which was 47.9% more establishments and 56.4% more households than in February 2021.
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