The number of overnight stays in hotels increases by 176% in the Canary Islands

Overnight stays in hotels shot up in July this year in the Canary Islands, and grew 176.5% compared to the same month last year, reaching a total of 2,874,431, as reported yesterday by the INE who report official statistics to the government. The Archipelago accumulated 10.9% of the country's total overnight stays with occupancy at 49% and prices increased by 3.8%. However, this figure is still very far from that registered in July 2019, before the pandemic, when they reached a total of 6,270,690 overnight stays registered.

In Spain as a whole, overnight stays in hotels rose 7.6% in the first seven months of this year compared to the same period in 2020, when the tourism sector felt the full force of the pandemic.

However, last month in July, overnight stays in Spain’s hotels exceeded 26.3 million nights, which is 125% of those made in the same month of 2020, and of these 56.6% were residents of Spain which is an increase of 97.4% compared to usual, while those of people from outside Spain rose 175%.

If this data for July 2021 is compared with the same month of 2019, without a pandemic, overnight stays in hotels as a whole show a decrease of 38.9%. but overnight stays by residents in Spain increased 0.4% and exceeded the levels before the outbreak of the coronavirus, while overnight stays by non-residents fell 59.5%.

On the other hand, the average length of stay increased by 15.8% compared to July 2020, standing at 3.1 nights per traveller. The INE points out that the Hotel Price Index (HPI) stood at 8.8% in July, which is 16.4 points above that registered in the same month of 2020, and 0.3 points more than the month before.

During July, 14,462 hotel establishments were open in Spain, 17.3% more than in the same month of 2020, which represents 74.3% of the total of registered hotels in Spain. The Balearic Islands, Andalusia and Catalonia were the main destinations for the total number of travellers in Spain in July, with annual variation rates in the number of overnight stays of 230.1%, 107.9% and 120.5%, respectively.

The main destinations for national travellers in Spain were Andalusia, Catalonia and the Valencian Community, whereas in the case of international travellers, the Balearic Islands, Catalonia and the Canary Islands were the most popular choice.