Hotel industry heading for new records after a strong summer
Keystone-SDA
The Swiss hotel industry remains on course for a record year. After another increase in overnight stays in October, the industry can look back on a consistently strong summer season.
In October, the number of overnight stays climbed by 4.1% year-on-year to 3.47 million, as reported by the Federal Statistical Office (FSO) on Monday. Swiss guests provided particular momentum with a significant increase of 4.8%.
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However, foreign demand also increased by 3.3%. This means that all months of the summer tourist season from May to October recorded year-on-year growth.
Record summer season
Over the entire summer season, 25.08 million overnight stays were recorded – a year-on-year increase of 2.6% and the highest figure ever recorded for this period.
Growth in the summer was driven primarily by European guests, whose demand rose by 3.8% to 6.9 million overnight stays. This is the highest figure since 2013, according to the FSO. Growth was particularly strong thanks to the UK (+10.8%), followed by Germany, Italy and France.
Guests from the US also set a record: with 3.1 million overnight stays (+3.4%), the continent achieved its highest summer figure to date. There was also an upward trend among domestic guests, with an increase of 2.8% to 11.7 million.
Adapted from French by DeepL/ac
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