Tourist arrivals and overnight stays, Slovenia, August 2020

In August 2020 more than two thirds of all tourist overnight stays generated by domestic tourists

Tourist accommodation establishments recorded 2.5 million tourist overnight stays in August 2020; almost 1.7 million of them were generated by domestic tourists.

25 September 2020 at 10:30
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In August 2020, 14% fewer tourist overnight stays

In August 2020 tourist accommodation establishments recorded more than 804,000 tourist arrivals (25% fewer than in August 2019). While domestic tourists generated more than 512,000 arrivals (172% more than in August 2019), foreign tourists generated 292,000 (67% fewer than in August 2019).
Tourists generated more than 2.5 million overnight stays in August 2020 (14% fewer than in August 2019), of which domestic tourists generated almost 1.7 million overnight stays (164% more than in August 2019) and foreign just over 819.000 (64% fewer than in August 2019).

Over a tenth of foreign overnight stays generated by tourists from Italy

The most overnight stays among foreign tourists in August 2020 were generated by tourists from Germany (35% or more than 283,000), followed by tourists from Italy (11%), the Netherlands and Austria (both 9%), Hungary (7%) and France (4%).

Health (spa) resorts and seaside resorts recorded more tourist overnight stays in August 2020 than in August 2019

In August 2020 health (spa) resorts recorded 513,000 tourist overnight stays (9% more than in August 2019) and seaside resorts almost 650,000 overnight stays (5% more than in August 2019). The most overnight stays (domestic and foreign) were recorded in mountain resorts (904,000 or 16% fewer than in August 2019).

Tourist farms with accommodation recorded 25% more tourist overnight stays in August 2020

Tourist farms with accommodation, which took 5th place in the number of tourist overnight stays in August 2020, recorded almost 82,000 overnight stays (25% more than in August 2019).
The most tourist overnight stays in August 2020 were recorded in hotels (more than 774,000 or 31% of all tourist overnight stays, which is 19% fewer than in August 2019), followed by private rooms, apartments and dwellings (28% of all tourist overnight stays or 4% fewer than in August 2019), with camping sites coming third (21% of all tourist overnight stays or 20% fewer than in August 2019).

40% fewer tourist overnight stays by the end of August 2020 compared to the same period in 2019

From the beginning of January until the end of August 2020 tourists generated almost 2.4 million arrivals (47% fewer than in the same period in 2019) and more than 7 million overnight stays (40% fewer than in the same period in 2019).
While in this period domestic tourists generated 26% more arrivals and 34% more overnight stays than in 2019, foreign tourists generated 70% fewer arrivals and 67% fewer overnight stays.

More data in the SiStat Database

More detailed provisional monthly data on tourist arrivals and overnight stays are published in the SiStat Database.

In 2020 a table Tourist arrivals and overnight stays by countries, municipalities, Slovenia, monthly was added in the SiStat Database.

Together with this release also the final monthly data for July 2020 are published in the SiStat Database.

Tourism flow, Slovenia − provisional data

Source: SURS

Tourist arrivals and overnight stays by key markets from which the tourists come, August 2020 – provisional data

	Tourist arrivals				Overnight stays
	VIII 2020	I–VIII 2020	VIII 2020 VIII 2019	I–VIII 2020 I–VIII 2019	VIII 2020	I–VIII 2020	VIII 2020 VIII 2019	I–VIII 2020 I–VIII 2019
	number	number	index	index	number	number	index	index
Total	804,367	2,377,774	75.4	52.5	2,510,420	7,094,792	85.8	60.3
Domestic	512,323	1,342,283	272.3	126.0	1,690,987	4,297,693	263.7	134.3
Foreign	292,044	1,035,491	33.2	29.9	819,433	2,797,099	35.8	32.7
of foreign
from Germany	96,800	222,362	69.1	51.3	283,235	625,283	77.6	54.8
from Italy	35,903	135,899	30.1	32.9	92,572	314,388	31.8	34.6
from the Netherlands	19,121	43,801	33.3	26.8	75,230	151,283	35.2	28.8
from Austria	26,947	112,919	54.3	42.1	72,859	288,165	55.7	41.6
from Hungary	21,296	61,705	52.1	41.0	60,449	177,042	51.8	43.9

Source: SURS

Tourist arrivals and overnight stays by types of tourist municipalities and by tourist accommodation establishments, August 2020 – provisional data

	Tourist arrivals				Overnight stays
	VIII 2020	I–VIII 2020	VIII 2020 VIII 2019	I–VIII 2020 I–VIII 2019	VIII 2020	I–VIII 2020	VIII 2020 VIII 2019	I–VIII 2020 I–VIII 2019
	number	number	index	index	number	number	index	index
Total	804,367	2,377,774	75.4	52.5	2,510,420	7,094,792	85.8	60.3
Types of tourist municipalities
Health (spa) resorts	139,951	482,961	115.5	69.8	513,086	1,677,864	108.8	69.3
Mountain resorts	309,214	812,532	78.1	56.4	904,000	2,354,878	84.1	63.5
Seaside resorts	165,106	447,297	103.2	63.7	649,406	1,627,666	105.5	70.7
Ljubljana, the capital	49,630	211,000	29.0	27.1	95,464	425,278	28.5	27.6
Urban municipalities	38,286	142,401	50.6	39.0	83,447	332,035	60.5	45.2
Other municipalities	102,180	281,583	71.2	51.6	265,017	677,071	90.7	64.3
Tourist accomm. establishments
Hotels	263,607	949,379	72.6	45.6	774,143	2,652,723	80.9	51.9
Private accommodations - rented rooms, dwellings	197,221	530,342	83.5	59.4	697,666	1,778,404	95.6	69.4
Camping sites	154,813	368,369	72.4	61.8	523,434	1,183,234	80.3	68.1
Apartment settlements	20,907	75,922	122.3	77.0	85,210	284,503	111.2	78.5
Tourist farms with accommodation	28,262	67,518	107.1	78.4	81,626	186,932	125.4	92.4

Source: SURS

METHODOLOGICAL NOTE

Final data on tourist arrivals and overnight stays for August 2020 will be published on 23 October 2020 in the SiStat Database.

Data are not seasonally adjusted.

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