The overnight stays in hotels in Portugal held in November 2014 a two-digit annual growth, increasing 11.4% to 2.4 million, but with a slight slowdown, especially in the domestic market, today released the INE.
According to the National Statistics Institute (INE), to the deceleration of 2.5 percentage points from the rate observed in the previous month contributed either the internal market, which grew 5.9%, less than the previous month ( plus 12.5%) and, to a lesser extent, foreign markets, which went from an increase of 14.4% in October to 13.9% in November.
Among the main markets, highlight for growth registered by Belgium (plus 57.1%), France (over 37.7%), Brazil (over 21.1%) and Ireland (over 20.8%), and Spain was the exception, decreased 9.0%.
The average stay in hotels in November was 2.53 nights (+ 2.3%) and the net rate of bed occupancy 29.1% (1.9 pp more) taking the total income increased 15.8% and income from hotel occupancy 14.7%, in line with the previous month (plus 15.2% and 16.3% more) to 113.4 and 75.3 million euros , respectively.
According to the INE, in the month under review RevPAR (revenue per available room) was 20.4 euros (10.3% in November and 11.6% more in October) .
In November 2014, hotels registered 929,300 guests and 2.4 million overnight stays, representing annual increases of 8.8% and 11.4%, respectively, below 14.0% and 13.9% in October.
Overnight stays in hotels accounted for 70.8% of the total and increased 12.6%, but the largest increases were in the apartments and holiday villages (16 more , 3% and 13.4% more, respectively).
In the penultimate month of 2014, nights spent by residents increased by 5.9% to 710,000, which represents a slowdown compared to the last months (more 12.5% in October, 10.9% more in September and + 15.0% in August).
As for the nights spent by non-residents increased by 13.9% to 1.6 million, an increase which is slightly below October (14.4% more), but exceeded all previous months of the year (except April month with Easter lagged the previous year).
From January to November, INE realize an increase of 12.7% of nights spent by residents and 10.1% of non-residents.
In November, the top 10 tourist markets for Portugal represented 74.2 % of nights spent by non-residents (73.3% in November 2013).
If the British market (19.4% of total non-resident overnight stays) grew 14.5%, in line with the previous month (plus 14.4%), Germany has also evolved significantly (up 16.6% compared to 12.0% more in October), with a share of 17.9%.
Now Spain was the only major markets to have reduced demand (-9.0% overnight stays), after an extended period of positive results (more 19.8% in October, 9.9% more in September and 12.4 more % in August), and the French market, with a relative weight of 8.3%, showed a strong increase (over 37.7%), only surpassed by Belgium (over 57.1%), although the latter country is made for share of 2.1%.
In an analysis by regions, it appears that in November overnight stays increased in all areas, and excelled the Azores (26.0% more), Lisbon and Algarve (more 15.1% and 13.7% respectively), while the latter two regions focused 31.8% and 21.8% of demand, followed by Wood (17.5% overall).
In the Algarve remained the increase of the internal market (23.6% more overnight stays), approximate to the previous month (plus 24.5%), and in other regions of the continent there have been slowdowns in growth.
The INE note that Lisbon (26.1%), North (25.7%) and Central (21.9%) were the main destinations of the residents, while foreign overnight stays “increased significantly” in the Azores and Lisbon (more 52.3% and 20.5% more, respectively), with the Algarve and North also register “créscimos remarkable” 12%.
OJE / Lusa
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