Arrivals, overnights at Romania`s toursit accomodation establishments, up Jan-Feb. 2017

Arrivals and overnights at Romania's tourist accommodation establishments in January and February 2017 were up 10.4 percent and 6.3 percent, respectively, y-o-y, according to data with the National Institute of Statistics (INS) released on Monday.

January 1 - February 28, 2017, arrivals at the tourist accommodation establishments totalled 1.338 million, 79.7 percent of which were Romanian tourists and 20.3 percent foreigners.

At the same time, overnights at the same establishments in the first two months of 2017 stood at 2.543 million, 6.3 percent from the first two months of 2016. In this case as well, the highest percentage (79.3 percent) was given by Romanian tourists, with the remaining 20.7 percent of the tourists having hailed from abroad.

Average stay, January-February, 2017 was 1.9 days for Romanian and foreign tourists alike.

Net occupancy rate in the same period was 21.4 percent, up 0.2 percent from January 1- February 28, 2016. Higher occupancy rates were recorded by hotels (26.8 percent), tourist villas (18.6 percent), guesthouses (16.2 percent) and hostels (15 percent).

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Most of the foreign tourists having arrived at Romania's tourist accommodation establishments in the first two months of 2017 hailed from Germany (29,900), Italy (29,700), Israel (27,400), France and the UK (18,100 each).

Foreign tourist arrivals recorded at the crossing points in the first two months of 2017 were almost 1.339 million, up 22.5 percent from the same period one year before. Most of the foreign tourists came from Europe (91.4 percent), 54 percent of whom hailed from other European Union member states (28.3 percent from Bulgaria; 21.8 percent from Hungary; 10.5 percent from Italy; 7.3 percent from Germany; 4.9 percent from France and 4.7 percent from Poland).

At the same time, Romanian tourists leaving abroad recorded at the crossing points, January - February 2017, stood at 1.829 million, down 14.7 percent y-o-y. As many as 83.4 percent of them chose motor vehicles as their preferred means of locomotion, according to INS.

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