More than one million lodge in a single day stays per day: Spain breaks one other vacationer report | Economy | EUROtoday

The Spanish lodge trade is without doubt one of the nice beneficiaries of the explosive development of tourism within the final six years, which has led Spain to go from receiving 84 million overseas vacationers in 2019 to 97 million in 2025. The annual stability of the lodge occupancy survey carried out by the INE, made public this morning, abounds on this thesis. Hotels in Spain recorded 366.7 million in a single day stays of their institutions, which was a brand new historic most and exceeded a million in a single day stays within the each day common for the primary time. In absolute phrases, the sector has seen a rise of 23.7 million stays in comparison with pre-pandemic ranges. And nearly the entire improve is defined by overseas vacationers.

Between 2019 and 2025, the typical variety of each day in a single day stays has elevated by 65,000 extra stays. Of these, 90% correspond to overseas guests (58,500) and solely 10% concerned nationwide vacationers (6,500).

One motive that explains this uneven conduct between overseas and nationwide vacationers is the exponential development in costs. Between 2019 and 2025, the typical lodge charge in Spain, made up of a mean of 15,000 institutions, elevated by 40%. The value per evening went from 91 euros to 128. The improve has had a direct affect on the selections of nationwide vacationers, with a buying energy decrease than that of foreigners, when hiring a lodge for his or her trip. In truth, in 2025, in a single day stays linked to residents fell by 0.2%, to 121.8 million. It is a degree much like that recorded in 2023. Quite the alternative has occurred in overseas tourism, through which stays reached a historic most of 245 million, with an annual improve of 1.6%.

The value improve translated, in flip, into a rise in revenue per accessible room (identified in trade jargon as revpar). This indicator, the primary one utilized by the lodge trade to measure its profitability, grew by 6.3% in 2025 to achieve 89.7 euros. This determine represents a rise of 47% in comparison with pre-pandemic ranges. And it’s once more an all-time excessive.

Four autonomies (Canary Islands, Balearic Islands, Catalonia and Andalusia) account for 70% of lodge in a single day stays all through Spain. The highest variety of stays final 12 months corresponded to the Canary Islands, with 72.8 million (19.8% of the whole), adopted by the Balearic Islands, with 63.6 million (17.3%), Catalonia, with 60.7 million (16.5%) and Andalusia, with 57.1 million (15.5%). The dependence on overseas tourism, nevertheless, is extra evident within the Balearic Islands or the Canary Islands, the place it’s chargeable for 92% and 88% of complete stays, respectively.

If the main focus is decreased to an area degree, the statistics replicate that the world that receives the best strain on account of lodge strain is the island of Mallorca, with 50 million in a single day stays, of which 94% of the whole got here from vacationers from different international locations. In second place is the island of Tenerife, with 26.2 million stays (86.2% overseas vacationers) and the Barcelona space, with 23 million (87% of the whole).