Spain · Nights at Tourist Accommodation (monthly)

## What this measures

The number of nights guests spent at tourist accommodation in Spain, in millions, each month: residents and visitors from abroad together. Tourist accommodation means hotels and similar, holiday and other short-stay accommodation, and campsites (NACE I55.1 to I55.3).

## Why it matters

Nights spent are the direct footprint of tourism demand. They move hotel and restaurant revenue, airline and rail traffic, and, for the countries most dependent on visitors, a large share of services exports and jobs.

## How to read it

The series is strongly seasonal, with a summer peak, so compare a month with the same month a year earlier rather than with the month before. The 2020 and 2021 collapse is the pandemic.

## What it does not say

It leaves out nights in homes that are not rented (friends, family, second homes) and, depending on the country, part of the private short-term rental market. Small establishments below national survey thresholds are not counted. The latest months are often provisional and revised.

## Source

Eurostat, dataset tour_occ_nim (nights spent at tourist accommodation establishments, monthly), all countries of residence, number of nights; Palanor shows millions. Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. Reuse, including commercial reuse, is authorised with acknowledgement of the source (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; Eurostat copyright notice). That permission covers data for EU and EFTA countries, which is all Palanor reads here. Source: Eurostat.