Eurostat: Tourism trips by residents of EU in 2023 up close to 6% y/y
In 2023, residents of the European Union made 1.14 billion tourism trips with at least one overnight stay, a 5.7 per cent (+61.6 million) increase compared with 2022, EU statistics agency Eurostat said on October 16.
Out of the total, most of the trips in 2023 (1029 million, representing 90 per cent of the total) were made for personal reasons and the remaining 110 million were professional trips.
Both sectors grew from the previous year: trips for personal reasons grew by 5.4 per cent (+52 million) and business trips recorded a 9.3 per cent increase (+9 million).
Compared with 2013, the number of trips for personal reasons went up by 11.7 per cent (+108 million), while the number of trips for professional reasons decreased by 6.3 per cent (-7 million).
Looking at the preferred destination for tourism trips, Europeans tend to choose mainly destinations in their country of residence.
In 2023, 73 per cent of the 1.14 billion tourism trips were domestic trips.
In terms of duration, more than half of the tourism trips (56.5 per cent) where short trips with one to three overnight stays.
Europeans spent relatively more on tourism trips in 2023 (transport, accommodation, other goods or services), with tourism expenditure reaching an estimated 553 billion euro, up by 16.5 per cent compared with 2022, Eurostat said.
This corresponds to on average 97.6 euro a night during trips with at least one overnight stay in 2023, marking a 11.8 per cent increase compared with 2022, when they spent an average of 87.3 euro.
When looking at spending per night, tourists from Luxembourg spent the most (183 euro), followed by Austrian tourists (161 euro) and Irish tourists (143 euro), while residents of Greece (48 euro), Poland (52 euro) and Czechia (57 euro) spent the least per night, Eurostat said.
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