Accommodation statistics
2020, March
Nights spent decreased by 48 per cent in March 2020
Due to the market situation caused by the coronavirus, the figures of the accommodation statistics for March are exceptionally released as a rapid estimate. Overnight stays by resident tourists at Finnish accommodation establishments declined by 46 per cent from last year and 0.70 million nights were recorded for them in March 2020. Overnight stays by foreign tourists declined by 53 per cent and 0.26 million overnight stays were recorded for non-resident tourists. Finnish accommodation establishments recorded a total of 0.96 million overnight stays, which was 48 per cent lower than one year before. Forty-three per cent of the hotels having reported data for March said they had already closed before the end of the month. The closed hotels were open in March for 24 days, on average. These figures are preliminary data from Statistics Finland’s statistics on accommodation establishments and they have been collected from accommodation establishments with at least 20 beds or caravan pitches with electricity connection.
Change in overnight stays in March 2020/2019, %
Overnight stays by Russians decreased most in March 2020
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The biggest drop was seen in overnight stays by Russians, down by 36,100 nights. Their overnight stays were 57.8 per cent down on March 2019.
The biggest group of non-resident tourists were Germans with 35,000 overnight stays. The second largest group was French with 30,500 overnight stays. The third largest group was Russians with 26,300 overnight stays, and fourth were Dutch tourists with 17,800 overnight stays.
Nights spent declined from 35 up to 66 per cent by region
Overnight stays declined in each region, but the smallest drop in relative terms was in Kainuu, where overnight stays declined by 35 per cent. By contrast, the overall number of overnight stays declined most in relative terms in Kanta-Häme, by 66 per cent.
Accommodation establishments in Uusimaa recorded 82,000 overnight stays by non-resident tourists and accommodation establishments in Lapland 117,000. Overnight stays by non-resident tourists declined by 59 per cent in Uusimaa. In Lapland, overnight stays by non-resident tourists declined by 47 per cent from one year ago. The share of Uusimaa in all overnight stays by foreign visitors was 31 per cent and that of Lapland 44 per cent.
Change in overnight stays in March by region 2020/2019,%
Occupancy rate of hotel rooms decreased by 25 percentage points
The total number of nights spent in hotels was 0.77 million, which was 50 per cent less than twelve months earlier. Overnight stays by foreign tourists declined by 53 per cent and hotels recorded a total of 230,000 overnight stays for them. Recorded nights spent by resident tourists in hotels numbered 0.54 million. The number was 49 per cent lower than in March 2019.
Among the regions, the highest occupancy rates of hotel rooms were measured in Kainuu, 45.5 per cent, and in Lapland, 42.5 per cent. In Helsinki, the hotel room occupancy rate was 29.6 per cent, 29.1 per cent in Tampere and 34.8 per cent in Turku.
In March 2020, the realised average price of a hotel room was EUR 113.95 per day for the whole country.
Twelve months earlier, it was EUR 110.85. There was a total of 54,190 hotel rooms available in Finland, which was 208 more than in March 2019.
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Hotel room occupancy rate and the monthly average price
Total number of nights spent decreased by 13 per cent in January to March 2020
In January to March 2020, a total of 4.48 million nights were spent in Finnish accommodation
establishments. This was 13.0 per cent less than in the corresponding period one year earlier. In all, 2.89 million overnight stays were recorded for resident tourists and 1.59 million for non-resident tourists. The number of nights spent by resident tourists declined by 12.3 per cent and nights spent by non-resident tourists declined by 14.1 from the previous year.
Overnight stays declined from all of the most important countries of inbound tourism to Finland. Overnight stays by them declined by 2 200 nights. The biggest drop was seen in overnight stays by Chinese tourists, down by 36,000 nights. Their overnight stays were 34 per cent down on January to March 2019.
The biggest group of non-resident tourists were Russians with 242,000 overnight stays. The second largest group was Germans with 152,000 overnight stays. The third largest group was French with 146,000 overnight stays , and fourth were Britons with 141,000 overnight stays.
Change in overnight stays in January-March 2020/2019, %
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Contents
Tables
Appendix tables
Appendix table 1.1. Capacity and its utilization, March 2020...5
Appendix table 1.2. Capacity and its utilization, January-March 2020...6
Appendix table 2.1. Nights spent in all establishments, March 2020...7
Appendix table 2.2. Nights spent in all establishments, January-March 2020...8
Appendix table 3.1. Hotel capacity and capacity utilization, March 2020...9
Appendix table 3.2. Hotel capacity and capacity utilization, January-March 2020...10
Appendix table 4.1. Nights spent in hotels, March 2020...11
Appendix table 4.2. Nights spent in hotels, January-March 2020...12
Appendix table 5.1. Visitor arrivals and nights spent by country of residence, March 2020...13
Appendix table 5.2. Visitor arrivals and nights spent by country of residence, January-March 2020...13
Appendix table 6. Nights spent in all establishments, 2020...14
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Appendix tables
Appendix table 1.1. Capacity and its utilization, March 2020
Average price of nights spent, in euros (incl. VAT 10 %) Change of the
occupancy rate compared to previous year, %-units Occupancy rate of
bedrooms, % Number of
bedrooms Number of
establishments Region
62.38 -22.6
30.3 62,849
1,084 Whole country
62.41 -22.9
30.6 62,171
1,068 Mainland Finland
69.06 -28.1
31.1 17,467
163 Uusimaa
61.14 -20.6
29.7 3,295
64 Southwest Finland
70.97 -15.0
19.0 1,383
39 Satakunta
60.24 -20.9
16.0 1,472
26 Kanta-Häme
62.50 -26.4
27.5 4,655
65 Pirkanmaa
53.97 -21.1
19.1 1,899
32 Päijät-Häme
70.24 -13.4
18.8 1,028
28 Kymenlaakso
45.91 -17.5
25.1 1,793
30 South Karelia
57.35 -16.2
18.8 1,882
71 South Savo
56.23 -25.2
28.2 2,503
44 North Savo
66.22 -18.5
29.3 1,414
45 North Karelia
59.65 -21.8
27.6 3,022
46 Central Finland
64.16 -13.2
24.9 1,797
43 South Ostrobothnia
75.63 -18.8
24.1 1,448
25 Ostrobothnia
68.22 -14.0
21.7 539
15 Central Ostrobothnia
46.32 -20.9
34.7 4,647
101 North Ostrobothnia
48.46 -15.9
44.4 2,039
35 Kainuu
69.26 -24.2
40.9 9,888
196 Lapland
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Appendix table 1.2. Capacity and its utilization, January-March 2020
Average price per night spent, in euros (incl. VAT 10 %) Change of the
occupancy rate compared to previous year,
%-units Occupancy rate of bedrooms, % Number of
bedrooms Number of
establishments Region
63.24 -6.6
44.6 62,959
1,090 Whole country
63.28 -6.7
45.0 62,106
1,067 Mainland Finland
68.91 -8.6
50.7 17,541
163 Uusimaa
59.24 -4.5
40.5 3,292
63 Southwest Finland
66.81 -6.3
27.3 1,380
39 Satakunta
54.07 -6.7
26.7 1,477
26 Kanta-Häme
61.38 -6.4
43.8 4,569
66 Pirkanmaa
55.15 -11.2
33.2 1,896
32 Päijät-Häme
68.28 -3.7
28.8 976
27 Kymenlaakso
47.91 -5.8
37.9 1,808
31 South Karelia
53.41 -4.8
29.9 1,928
72 South Savo
56.01 -9.8
40.8 2,497
44 North Savo
61.00 -6.3
38.3 1,420
45 North Karelia
53.07 -7.5
40.4 3,056
47 Central Finland
51.96 -2.4
34.4 1,792
43 South Ostrobothnia
67.68 -7.3
31.6 1,463
26 Ostrobothnia
71.49 -2.3
31.9 546
15 Central Ostrobothnia
49.28 -5.0
45.6 4,650
101 North Ostrobothnia
45.72 -0.2
52.8 2,031
35 Kainuu
74.18 -7.4
56.3 9,784
191 Lapland
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Appendix table 2.1. Nights spent in all establishments, March 2020
Change of nights spent, non-residents,
% Nights spent, non-residents Change of
nights spent, residents, % Nights spent,
residents Change of
nights spent, total, % Nights spent,
total Region
-53.4 264,415
-46.1 699,569
-48.3 963,984
Whole country
-53.2 262,910
-46.1 697,477
-48.2 960,387
Mainland Finland
-58.7 82,483
-50.4 137,542
-53.9 220,025
Uusimaa
-53.2 6,466
-48.0 35,776
-48.8 42,242
Southwest Finland
-34.9 2,414
-51.0 8,618
-48.2 11,032
Satakunta
-72.1 551
-65.6 9,416
-66.0 9,967
Kanta-Häme
-56.2 7,063
-53.8 49,176
-54.1 56,239
Pirkanmaa
-52.2 2,837
-57.6 14,811
-56.8 17,648
Päijät-Häme
-63.1 1,292
-38.2 7,117
-44.0 8,409
Kymenlaakso
-66.2 6,583
-42.0 18,017
-51.3 24,600
South Karelia
-57.2 2,482
-55.6 14,049
-55.8 16,531
South Savo
-59.8 3,682
-48.7 33,550
-50.1 37,232
North Savo
-21.0 4,822
-48.5 14,996
-43.7 19,818
North Karelia
-50.6 4,862
-53.8 36,200
-53.4 41,062
Central Finland
-33.7 1,120
-52.9 17,881
-52.1 19,001
South Ostrobothnia
-61.4 2,067
-45.2 11,116
-48.6 13,183
Ostrobothnia
-48.5 540
-39.6 4,581
-40.7 5,121
Central Ostrobothnia
-53.5 13,133
-41.1 91,569
-43.0 104,702
North Ostrobothnia
-70.7 3,048
-31.1 68,783
-34.8 71,831
Kainuu
-46.5 117,465
-35.4 124,279
-41.4 241,744
Lapland
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Appendix table 2.2. Nights spent in all establishments, January-March 2020
Change of nights spent, non-residents,
% Nights spent, non-residents Change of
nights spent, residents, % Nights spent,
residents Change of
nights spent, total, % Nights spent,
total Region
-14.1 1,588,093
-12.3 2,887,126
-13.0 4,475,219
Whole country
-14.0 1,580,003
-12.3 2,878,190
-12.9 4,458,193
Mainland Finland
-18.8 478,712
-12.2 699,559
-15.0 1,178,271
Uusimaa
-21.9 28,194
-10.7 156,062
-12.6 184,256
Southwest Finland
-10.4 8,425
-21.0 38,413
-19.3 46,838
Satakunta
-41.7 3,954
-21.6 54,200
-23.4 58,154
Kanta-Häme
-11.7 38,884
-14.8 245,529
-14.4 284,413
Pirkanmaa
-34.5 17,850
-19.3 80,370
-22.6 98,220
Päijät-Häme
-24.4 9,002
-17.8 28,121
-19.5 37,123
Kymenlaakso
-10.5 48,974
-16.2 78,379
-14.1 127,353
South Karelia
-15.3 19,885
-22.4 65,942
-20.9 85,827
South Savo
-14.4 24,800
-17.3 144,143
-16.9 168,943
North Savo
-9.2 15,282
-12.1 65,772
-11.6 81,054
North Karelia
-8.9 35,608
-16.0 176,191
-14.9 211,799
Central Finland
-2.7 5,213
-5.9 88,875
-5.8 94,088
South Ostrobothnia
-20.2 10,339
-14.9 46,249
-15.9 56,588
Ostrobothnia
-22.4 2,516
-8.8 19,201
-10.6 21,717
Central Ostrobothnia
-6.9 105,048
-8.1 323,363
-7.8 428,411
North Ostrobothnia
-35.8 27,378
-4.8 228,273
-9.5 255,651
Kainuu
-9.4 699,939
-8.4 339,548
-9.0 1,039,487
Lapland
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Åland
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Appendix table 3.1. Hotel capacity and capacity utilization, March 2020
RevPAR, euros (incl. VAT 10 %) Room price,
euros (incl. VAT 10 %)
Change compared to previous year,
%-units Occupancy
rate of bedrooms, % Number of
bedrooms Number of
establishments Region / municipality
34.80 113.95
-24.8 30.5
54,190 641
Whole country
35.10 114.02
-25.0 30.8
53,581 630
Mainland Finland
32.50 110.85
-30.8 29.3
16,178 125
Uusimaa
34.38 116.11
-35.9 29.6
9,649 61
Helsinki
32.54 99.50
-21.4 32.7
2,724 38
Southwest Finland
36.29 104.24
-27.3 34.8
1,801 19
Turku
19.36 94.09
-18.2 20.6
1,155 25
Satakunta
15.83 96.38
-22.1 16.4
1,341 17
Kanta-Häme
27.59 102.92
-28.4 26.8
4,171 43
Pirkanmaa
30.76 105.77
-31.6 29.1
3,308 26
Tampere
19.70 99.29
-21.8 19.8
1,766 15
Päijät-Häme
23.37 101.81
-12.6 23.0
808 16
Kymenlaakso
24.39 98.15
-18.1 24.9
1,447 13
South Karelia
21.17 95.32
-17.5 22.2
1,323 25
South Savo
28.40 100.27
-26.0 28.3
2,308 27
North Savo
36.29 115.05
-20.3 31.5
1,192 21
North Karelia
29.37 103.59
-23.9 28.4
2,657 24
Central Finland
25.26 93.86
-14.8 26.9
1,617 26
South Ostrobothnia
24.26 98.05
-20.7 24.7
1,404 21
Ostrobothnia
20.50 96.01
-16.8 21.4
491 10
Central Ostrobothnia
39.00 104.94
-23.1 37.2
3,381 53
North Ostrobothnia
44.44 97.70
-21.6 45.5
1,844 20
Kainuu
65.76 154.84
-25.8 42.5
7,774 111
Lapland
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Appendix table 3.2. Hotel capacity and capacity utilization, January-March 2020
RevPAR, euros (incl. VAT 10 %) Room price,
euros (incl. VAT 10 %)
Change compared to previous year,
%-units Occupancy
rate of bedrooms, % Number of
bedrooms Number of
establishments Region / municipality
53.17 114.73
-7.6 46.3
54,214 640
Whole country
53.62 114.84
-7.7 46.7
53,547 629
Mainland Finland
56.01 111.31
-10.4 50.3
16,276 125
Uusimaa
63.00 115.70
-11.7 54.4
9,742 61
Helsinki
44.26 98.67
-4.0 44.9
2,711 38
Southwest Finland
50.36 101.40
-6.2 49.7
1,791 19
Turku
28.11 91.52
-7.9 30.7
1,151 25
Satakunta
25.62 92.39
-7.0 27.7
1,339 17
Kanta-Häme
45.89 101.35
-6.4 45.3
4,082 43
Pirkanmaa
51.38 103.61
-6.7 49.6
3,315 27
Tampere
33.70 97.47
-11.5 34.6
1,761 15
Päijät-Häme
34.05 100.63
-1.3 33.8
778 16
Kymenlaakso
41.27 105.47
-5.8 39.1
1,462 14
South Karelia
32.37 92.25
-3.2 35.1
1,375 26
South Savo
41.94 100.77
-10.0 41.6
2,299 27
North Savo
42.71 103.34
-7.3 41.3
1,184 21
North Karelia
44.33 105.98
-8.6 41.8
2,648 24
Central Finland
32.66 87.44
-3.0 37.4
1,605 25
South Ostrobothnia
30.48 93.88
-9.0 32.5
1,419 22
Ostrobothnia
32.33 98.53
-3.5 32.8
490 10
Central Ostrobothnia
53.69 106.18
-5.6 50.6
3,384 53
North Ostrobothnia
50.06 92.52
-5.6 54.1
1,836 20
Kainuu
96.55 162.18
-7.8 59.5
7,748 110
Lapland
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Appendix table 4.1. Nights spent in hotels, March 2020
Change of nights spent, non-residents,
% Nights spent, non-residents Change of
nights spent, residents, % Nights spent,
residents Change of
nights spent, total, % Nights spent,
total Region / municipality
-52.7 229,693
-48.5 541,233
-49.8 770,926
Whole country
-52.5 228,522
-48.5 539,278
-49.8 767,800
Mainland Finland
-59.3 74,599
-55.7 110,279
-57.2 184,878
Uusimaa
-62.5 52,728
-57.0 60,939
-59.7 113,667
Helsinki
-47.3 6,244
-47.7 32,398
-47.7 38,642
Southwest Finland
-56.1 4,277
-54.9 21,419
-55.1 25,696
Turku
-54.8 1,463
-50.7 7,686
-51.4 9,149
Satakunta
-75.5 449
-67.5 8,327
-68.1 8,776
Kanta-Häme
-58.9 6,065
-52.3 42,636
-53.2 48,701
Pirkanmaa
-61.8 5,249
-50.9 35,370
-52.7 40,619
Tampere
-53.6 2,605
-60.7 12,057
-59.6 14,662
Päijät-Häme
-61.3 1,153
-38.3 5,669
-43.9 6,822
Kymenlaakso
-65.3 5,677
-42.3 14,698
-51.3 20,375
South Karelia
-68.0 1,006
-53.8 10,956
-55.4 11,962
South Savo
-62.7 2,647
-49.5 29,382
-50.9 32,029
North Savo
1.0 4,234
-52.3 12,117
-44.8 16,351
North Karelia
-50.6 4,549
-55.7 31,568
-55.1 36,117
Central Finland
-32.2 902
-51.7 16,695
-51.0 17,597
South Ostrobothnia
-61.1 1,997
-44.1 10,394
-47.8 12,391
Ostrobothnia
-64.4 249
-41.7 3,925
-43.8 4,174
Central Ostrobothnia
-51.3 8,977
-41.5 60,006
-43.0 68,983
North Ostrobothnia
-68.4 2,400
-27.7 61,027
-31.1 63,427
Kainuu
-44.0 103,306
-39.7 69,458
-42.4 172,764
Lapland
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Appendix table 4.2. Nights spent in hotels, January-March 2020
Change of nights spent, non-residents,
% Nights spent, non-residents Change of
nights spent, residents, % Nights spent,
residents Change of
nights spent, total, % Nights spent,
total Region / municipality
-13.9 1,352,517
-11.9 2,407,853
-12.7 3,760,370
Whole country
-13.9 1,345,610
-11.9 2,399,708
-12.6 3,745,318
Mainland Finland
-18.6 442,717
-14.1 615,655
-16.0 1,058,372
Uusimaa
-18.9 333,399
-12.4 359,841
-15.7 693,240
Helsinki
-18.1 26,515
-10.1 142,680
-11.5 169,195
Southwest Finland
-29.5 18,908
-14.2 102,423
-17.0 121,331
Turku
-16.1 6,930
-18.6 35,074
-18.2 42,004
Satakunta
-42.7 3,705
-22.1 50,186
-24.0 53,891
Kanta-Häme
-12.8 35,218
-11.6 215,082
-11.7 250,300
Pirkanmaa
-13.9 31,830
-3.5 185,091
-5.2 216,921
Tampere
-35.7 16,579
-20.3 71,118
-23.8 87,697
Päijät-Häme
-18.9 7,698
-15.4 23,425
-16.3 31,123
Kymenlaakso
-9.7 41,223
-15.5 66,997
-13.4 108,220
South Karelia
-18.0 9,135
-17.9 53,644
-17.9 62,779
South Savo
-18.1 18,195
-15.2 131,843
-15.5 150,038
North Savo
-8.9 10,918
-13.6 56,919
-12.9 67,837
North Karelia
-8.0 33,972
-17.1 157,844
-15.6 191,816
Central Finland
-2.4 4,295
-6.0 81,884
-5.8 86,179
South Ostrobothnia
-19.2 10,269
-13.5 43,513
-14.6 53,782
Ostrobothnia
-28.0 1,633
-7.1 17,015
-9.4 18,648
Central Ostrobothnia
-2.3 72,453
-8.1 221,650
-6.8 294,103
North Ostrobothnia
-32.2 22,390
-0.6 206,263
-4.9 228,653
Kainuu
-9.3 581,765
-5.2 208,916
-8.3 790,681
Lapland
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Appendix table 5.1. Visitor arrivals and nights spent by country of residence, March 2020
Change of nights spent in hotels, % Nights spent in
hotels Change of nights
spent in all accommodation establishments, % Nights spent in all
accommodation establishments Visitor arrivals in all
accommodation establishments Country of residence
-49.8 770,926
-48.3 963,984
429,526 Total
-48.5 541,233
-46.1 699,569
324,993 Finland
-52.7 229,693
-53.4 264,415
104,533 Foreign countries
-66.5 10,143
-66.4 10,933
6,318 Sweden
-37.8 30,666
-39.1 34,992
13,395 Germany
-56.2 20,983
-57.8 26,347
12,950 Russia
-57.6 12,990
-60.2 14,387
5,938 United Kingdom
-52.6 9,855
-51.2 10,593
5,313 United States
-72.5 3,616
-70.4 4,702
2,110 Norway
-51.3 13,716
-50.5 17,793
4,642 Netherlands
-61.2 4,045
-61.4 4,583
1,605 Italy
-27.9 27,999
-30.2 30,514
7,353 France
-53.2 7,259
-52.3 7,675
3,851 Japan
-59.3 5,206
-57.2 7,974
2,948 Estonia
-36.5 7,169
-48.9 7,750
2,297 Switzerland
-55.3 4,650
-54.7 5,792
2,114 Spain
-83.7 3,274
-83.2 3,502
1,247 China
Appendix table 5.2. Visitor arrivals and nights spent by country of residence, January-March 2020
Change of nights spent in hotels,
% Nights spent in hotels Change of nights spent in all accommodation establishments, % Nights spent in all
accommodation establishments Visitor arrivals in all
accommodation establishments Country of
residence
-12.7 3,760,370
-13.0 4,475,219
2,191,881 Total
-11.9 2,407,853
-12.3 2,887,126
1,548,353 Finland
-13.9 1,352,517
-14.1 1,588,093
643,528 Foreign countries
-26.6 56,594
-27.9 59,197
36,953 Sweden
-9.0 131,243
-9.1 152,015
59,433 Germany
0.8 192,986
-2.8 241,799
101,413 Russia
-13.1 110,874
-14.1 140,727
43,345 United Kingdom
-6.7 48,654
-5.7 51,631
25,211 United States
-38.9 18,154
-38.1 21,166
11,543 Norway
-6.5 84,592
-7.3 111,718
28,558 Netherlands
-10.9 29,227
-10.8 32,680
13,388 Italy
-9.2 133,682
-9.9 145,913
37,384 France
-5.2 44,170
-4.6 46,072
23,743 Japan
-15.5 36,155
-15.6 48,726
19,584 Estonia
-15.5 28,968
-17.9 45,217
12,793 Switzerland
-17.3 24,604
-20.0 28,197
11,326 Spain
-34.4 67,434
-33.7 70,899
40,931 China
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Appendix table 6. Nights spent in all establishments, 2020
Change of nights spent,
non-residents, % Nights spent,
non-residents Change of nights
spent, residents,
% Nights spent, residents Change of
nights spent, total, % Nights spent, total Month
-14.1 1,588,093
-12.3 2,887,126
-13.0 4,475,219
Total
5.0 711,407
9.8 954,134
7.7 1,665,541
January
1.4 612,271
9.5 1,233,423
6.7 1,845,694
February
-53.4 264,415
-46.1 699,569
-48.3 963,984
March
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