In 2025, the EU recorded 3.1 billion nights spent in tourist accommodation establishments, up from 3.0 billion in 2024 (+4.1%). Domestic and international tourists accounted for almost equal numbers of nights. Compared with 2015, nights spent in EU tourist accommodations increased by 26.5%, from 2.5 billion.
Data show that in 2025, 80.9% (2.5 billion) of nights in tourist accommodation were spent by domestic tourists or tourists from other EU countries (intra-EU) and 10.4% by tourists from other European countries.
Tourists from the Americas (North, Central and South) accounted for 4.9% of nights (155.5 million), while guests from Asia represented 2.6% (81.6 million), Oceania 0.5% (15.2 million) and Africa 0.4% (12.9 million).
Between 2024 and 2025, nights spent by tourists from Asia (+15.4%) and Africa (+13.7%) increased the most. And when compared with 2015, nights spent by tourists from the Americas more than doubled (+101.9%), from nearly 77 million.
Source dataset: tour_occ_ninraw
Which EU countries registered the highest tourism intensity in 2025?
When looking at the ratio of nights spent at tourist accommodation establishments relative to the total permanent resident population of the area (tourism intensity), the EU recorded an average of 7.0 guest nights per year, up from the 6.7 ratio registered in 2024.
At country level, the highest ratios were registered in Croatia (24.5 nights per inhabitant), Malta (21.7) and Cyprus (19.4), followed by Greece (15.1) and Austria (14.6). On the other end, Romania registered the lowest ratio, with 1.6 nights spent in tourist accommodation establishments per inhabitant, followed by Latvia (2.7), Poland (2.9) and Slovakia (2.9).
Source datasets: tour_occ_ninat, tour_occ_nim, demo_pjan
Tourism intensity is closely related to tourism sustainability; this indicator is also included in Eurostat’s recently released set of harmonized European indicators on the sustainability of tourism.
For more information
- Statistics Explained article on tourism statistics – annual results for the accommodation sector
- Database on tourism
- Thematic section on tourism
- Tourism sustainability
- Webinar on tourism statistics
Methodological note
Tourism intensity is the number of nights spent in rented accommodation per inhabitant and is an indicator of the possible pressure tourists place on a local community. Tourism intensity, as used here, covers only visitor flows in rented accommodation and does not include stays at second homes, visits to friends and relatives, same-day visitors and stays at smaller establishments.
