Tourist arrivals and overnight stays, Slovenia, December 2019

In December 2019 most foreign tourists in Slovenia from Italy

328,000 tourist arrivals (approximately the same as in December 2018) and almost 798,000 tourist overnight stays (9% fewer than in December 2018) were recorded in tourist accommodation establishments in December 2019.

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64% of all overnight stays generated by foreign tourists (510,000)

In December 2019 domestic tourists generated 110,000 arrivals (1% more than in December 2018) and more than 287,000 overnight stays (6% fewer than in December 2018). Foreign tourist generated 218,000 arrivals (approximately the same as in December 2018) and more than 510,000 overnight stays (10% fewer than in December 2018).

Italian tourists prevail also in December

The most overnight stays among foreign tourists were generated by tourists from Italy (26% or almost 134,000), followed by tourists from Austria (11%), Croatia (10%), Germany (6%) and Serbia (5%).

30% of all overnight stays in health (spa) resorts

In December 2019 the highest number of tourist overnight stays was recorded in health (spa) resorts (30% or more than 240,000), followed by mountain resorts (22%), municipality Ljubljana (18%) and seaside resorts (12%).

Almost 60% of all overnight stays in hotels

Hotels were again the first as regards the number of tourist overnight stays (more than 460,000 but 9% fewer than in December 2018). Hotels were again followed by private rooms, apartments and dwellings (18% of all overnight stays or 10% fewer than in December 2018), with apartment settlements coming in third (4% of all overnight stays or 2% fewer than in December 2018).

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Tourism flow, Slovenia − provisional data

Source: SURS

Tourist arrivals and overnight stays by key markets from which the tourists come, December 2019 – provisional data

	Tourist arrivals				Overnight stays
	XII 2019	I–XII 2019	XII 2019 XII 2018	I–XII 2019 I–XII 2018	XII 2019	I–XII 2019	XII 2019 XII 2018	I–XII 2019 I–XII 2018
	number	number	index	index	number	number	index	index
Total	328,088	6,230,656	100.1	105.0	797,716	15,787,849	91.1	100.6
Domestic	110,056	1,527,824	100.8	101.3	287,581	4,409,384	93.8	97.6
Foreign	218,032	4,702,832	99.8	106.3	510,135	11,378,465	89.6	101.8
of foreign
from Italy	65,146	597,553	91.5	99.8	133,869	1,279,449	86.4	95.9
from Austria	24,701	396,527	110.7	103.9	54,508	1,011,936	99.4	100.1
from Croatia	24,598	235,020	107.6	107.4	52,273	538,249	94.5	102.1
from Germany	10,072	584,837	100.9	115.6	30,326	1,522,663	85.9	111.8
from Serbia	9,947	144,850	101.5	105.3	26,319	380,856	95.7	101.2

Source: SURS

Tourist arrivals and overnight stays by types of turist municipalities and by tourist accommodation establishments, December 2019 – provisional data

	Tourist arrivals				Overnight stays
	XII 2019	I–XII 2019	XII 2019 XII 2018	I–XII 2019 I–XII 2018	XII 2019	I–XII 2019	XII 2019 XII 2018	I–XII 2019 I–XII 2018
	number	number	index	index	number	number	index	index
Total	328,088	6,230,656	100.1	105.0	797,716	15,787,849	91.1	100.6
Types of tourist municipalities
Health (spa) resorts	79,472	1,009,929	101.0	100.1	241,325	3,444,675	98.5	98.8
Mountain resorts	71,902	1,878,163	95.7	105.9	179,006	4,637,619	89.1	103.3
Seaside resorts	37,179	955,745	96.8	102.8	97,097	3,016,325	89.6	100.2
Ljubljana, the capital	77,359	1,128,689	107.9	110.3	144,925	2,229,511	85.4	102.3
Urban municipalities	31,105	520,080	98.4	102.6	74,788	1,051,046	93.8	95.4
Other municipalities	31,071	738,050	96.5	106.8	60,575	1,408,673	83.6	98.7
Tourist accomm. establishments
Hotels	200,881	3,056,183	99.5	103.3	463,670	7,319,004	91.2	98.4
Private accommodations - rented rooms, dwellings	58,450	1,174,703	103.3	113.8	146,471	3,274,559	90.1	109.3
Apartment settlements	10,763	137,313	98.3	72.4	32,377	482,658	98.4	77.0
Camping sites	10,680	713,469	85.1	110.1	29,363	2,036,619	82.3	105.3
Temporary accommodation establishments and marinas	2,238	89,110	96.1	95.6	22,401	363,845	96.8	101.4

Source: SURS

METHODOLOGICAL NOTE

Final data on tourist arrivals and overnight stays for December 2019 will be published on 25 February 2020 in the SiStat Database.

Data are not seasonally adjusted.

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