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Date Published: 02/03/2022
ARCHIVED - Camping and Airbnb accommodation growth in Spain outperforms hotel stays in January 2022
Foreign tourists visiting Spain are to thank for most of this growth in non-hotel activity
Non-hotel overnight stays in Andalucía – those in Airbnb flats, campsites and hostels rather than hotels – amounted to 757,636 in January, up 221% compared to the same period in 2021, when they totalled 235,672, according to data published on Wednesday by the National Statistics Institute (INE).
In the case of overnight stays in tourist flats in Andalucía, there were 378,934 this January, compared to 108,213 in January of last year, while in campsites there were 304,947, in comparison with the 106,982 in the same month last year.
In Spain as a whole, overnight stays in non-hotel tourist accommodation exceeded 4.7 million in January, which is more than three times higher than in the same month of 2021 (+231%).
This boost was mainly due to the fourfold increase in overnight stays by travellers from overseas. While there were just over twice as many Spaniards staying in this type of accommodation, the number of stays by foreign nationals increased by nearly three times that (316.5%).
If we add hotels into the mix, overnight stays in Spanish tourist accommodation as a whole almost quadrupled in January, increasing by 292.3% compared to the same month in 2021. This adds a mere 61.3% rise on top of non-hotel stays, indicating that campsites and other means of accommodation outside of hotels are quickly becoming more popular.
Meanwhile, in the case of Spaniards, both hotel and non-hotel stays rose by 155.8%, while overnight stays by people visiting on vacation from other countries were almost six times higher than in January last year, with an increase of 493.4%.
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