Guests and overnight stays in hotels accelerate growth to 10% in January – Daily News – Lisbon

According to the National Institute of Statistics, 69.6% of overnight stays are in hotels.

Guests and overnight stays in hotels increased 10.3% and 10.7% in January to 870,700 and 2.1 million, respectively, while total revenues climbed 13% to 103.7 million euros, today released the INE.

According to the National Statistics Institute (INE), the annual evolution of guests and overnight stays accelerated in January from the previous month, when it had registered increases of 9.6% and 9.8%, while of income progressed “slightly” less, since in December the growth was 14.6%.

also in the room income the annual rise in January was “slightly less significant” than December , standing at 15.1% (16.1% in the previous month) to 71.4 million euros.

in the first month of 2016, residents of overnights the accelerated and increased by 11.6% (+ 7.1% in December), totaling 720,700, and nights spent by non-residents “decelerated somewhat” and grew 10.2% (+ 11.6% in December) to 1.4 million.

the average stay (2.46 nights) had a “slight increase” (+ 0.4%) and net occupancy rate of bed increased by 1.9 percentage points (pp), reaching 26.2% while the average revenue per room available (RevPAR) rose 11.8% to 19.1 euros (+ 14.5% in December).

in an analysis by type of establishment, the INE reports an increase of 10.5% of overnight stays in hotels, which accounted for 69.6% of the total, while apartments and tourist villages remained “notable increases” (38.9% and 35.3%), with the first to cover 6.5 % of total overnight stays (+1.3 pp).

the 12 main markets of tourists to Portugal had a share of 80.1% in January 2016 (+0.7 pp), highlighting -if the UK by “significant increase” in overnight stays (+ 16.2%), which allowed him to achieve a relative weight of 21.9%.

the German market (14.4% of total ) grew 7.9%, in line with previous months, and the Spanish market remained “significant results” (+ 24.1%), though decelerating, with its quota to increase to 9.9% (+1, 1 pp).

According to the INE, the results of France (+ 9.7%) fell short of the previous month (+ 13.1%), and this market represented 7.5% of overnight stays of non-residents, and developments in other markets was “markedly positive”, especially for Ireland (+ 25.9%) and the USA (+24.0%).

Brazil was the only one of major markets to fall (-20.0%), keeping in reduction “since August 2015.”

in January, the institute highlights the “significant increase in overnight stays” occurred in the Azores, which reached 66.5% due to the “strengthening of air transport from / to this region over the same month of the previous year.”

Considering only nights spent by non-residents, the Azores registered an increase of 84, 4%, while the average stay rose a “remarkable” 13.9% and the load factor increased by 8.6 pp to 22.4%.

the other regions of the country also maintained a positive evolution, stressing the Algarve (+ 18.8%) and the North (+ 16.8%), and noted increases in non-resident overnight stays in the North (+ 22.3%), Central (+ 19.9% ) and Algarve (+17.0%).

in Lisbon overnights “slightly increased” (+ 0.7%), this being the region with the highest demand (29.7% of overnight stays total) but with reduced share (32.6% in January 2015).

in terms of representation followed by the Algarve (20.7%) and Madeira (19.7%) .

for the deceleration in income in January only contributed, according to the INE, the Lisbon region, as in other regions the results exceeded those of December.

with regard to RevPAR, Madeira and Lisbon had the highest average revenue per available room (31.9 and 30.9 euros respectively) and increases “more significant” occurred in the Azores (+ 62.6%), the North ( + 17.8%) and wood (+17.7%).