Overnight stays in hotels rose by 8.2% in Januar

Spanish hotels recorded 14 million overnight stays last January, which is 8.2% more than in the same month of 2015, according to figures released Tuesday by the National Statistics Institute (INE).With the annual rebound in January, hotel stays accelerate their growth by 1.2 percentage points compared to December 2015, when the annual rate was 7%.The annual progress made in January is due to the 8.9% increase in overnight stays of residents in Spain and to a lesser extent, the 7.8% increase in overnight stays by non-residents. Still, the average stay fell 1.8% in the first month of the year to stand at 3.1 nights per traveler.The first month of the year recorded hotel occupancy of 43.5% of the available places, 7.3% more than in 2015. The degree of occupancy by places at weekends up 8.6% and stood at 49.2%.Andalusia and Madrid, favorite destinations of nationalAs for destinations, Andalucía, with 18.5% of the total, the Community of Madrid (15%), Catalonia (13.8%) and Valencia (13.3%) were preferred by Spanish residents during the month of January. By contrast, fewer overnight stays were La Rioja (0.8%) and Ceuta and Melilla (0.2%).
Photography of Monte Malaga Hotel.In the case of non-residents prefer Canarias, which accounts for 55.9% of the total and registered a 3.3% increase in overnight stays compared to the same month of 2015. Next in the list Catalonia, with 13% of the total, an increase of 12.3% over the number of overnight stays in 2015, and Andalusia, with 10.9% and a growth of 13.5% over the same period of 2015.Travelers who came to Spain from the UK and Germany accounted for 23.6% and 21.1% of overnight stays by non-residents during the first month of the year, with nearly four million pernocataciones between the two markets of the 14 4 million the month. For the Germans, decreased by 1.7%, lie to the British it increased by 17.9%.For their part, from France (6.3%), Sweden (5.4%) and Italy (5.3%) are the following source markets. In the case of France, it increased by 9%, Sweden did by 3.8% and Italy 6.6%.Canary had the highest degree of occupancy by places, with 74.4%, followed by Madrid with 47% and Valencia, with 42.5%. Furthermore, the main tourist areas by room nights were Madrid, Barcelona and San Bartolome de Tirajana, being the most occupation Arona won (82.9%) and Puerto de la Cruzla recorded more rooms occupied during the weekends ( 82.9%).Prices rise 3%Hotel prices in January stood at 3%, representing an increase of two points from the previous month, with revenue per occupied room (ADR) of 73 euros on average, 1.9%, and revenues per available room (RevPar) of 36 euros, with an annual rise of 9.3%.By category, hotel prices rise in all establishments. In the two-star hotels Gold (+ 4%), four gold stars (+ 3.7%), three two Silver Stars (3%), a gold star (+ 2.8%), a silver star (+ 2.6%), three stars of gold (+ 2.1%) and five gold stars (+ 1.6%).Extremadura recorded the highest increase with 6.2%, followed by Catalonia and Andalusia, up 4.3% each over the same month of 2015, followed by the Principality of Asturias which rose 4.2%, La Comunidad de Madrid (+ 4%) and Galicia (+ 3.1%). In January, communities registered their biggest drop in hotel prices were Ceuta (-10.1%) and the Balearic Islands (-2.1%).