Sharp drop in overnight stays in hotel accommodation during the 2020 summer season but increase in domestic demand
Neuchâtel, 07.12.2020 - The hotel sector registered 13.4 million overnight stays in Switzerland during the summer tourist season (from May to October 2020). This represents a decline of 40.9% (–9.3 million overnight stays) compared with the same period a year earlier. With a total of 10.2 million overnight stays, domestic demand rose by 3.9% (+384 000). Foreign visitors registered a 75.2% decrease (–9.6 million) with 3.2 million overnight stays. These are the provisional results from the Federal Statistical Office (FSO).
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Isabelle Portenier, FSO, Tourism section, tel.: +41 58 463 65 74, email: Info-Tour@bfs.admin.ch
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Federal Statistical Office
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