Transport and Tourism 2013 Accommodation statistics 2012, December Nights spent by foreign tourists in Finland up by 45 per cent in December 2012 The number of recorded nights spent by foreign tourists at Finnish accommodation establishments in December 2012 was 525,000, which was 45 per cent more than in December 2011 The number of nights spent by resident tourists went up by 1 per cent and totalled 1,000 in December 2012 The total number of overnight stays increased by 2 per cent from the year before Accommodation establishments recorded a total of 13 million of them in December 2012 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, and youth hostels Change in overnight stays in December 2012/2011, % Russians and Brits were the largest groups of foreign tourists in December 2012 Accommodation establishments recorded 160,000 overnight stays for Russian tourists and good 114,000 overnight stays for British tourists The number of nights spent by Russian tourists was 13 per cent up and that of nights Helsinki 2222013 Quoting is encouraged provided Statistics Finland is acknowledged as the source
spent by British tourists 10 per cent up on December 2011 Visitors from Germany came third with 26,000 nights spent, which was 62 per cent up year-on-year Swedish and Japanese tourists overnight stays increased by 2-3 per cent compared to December 2011 By contrast, nights spent in Finland by visitors from the other most important inbound tourism countries decreased from the year before The biggest drops were seen in overnight stays by Norwegians, 159 per cent and by Italians, 154 per cent Overnight stays by Spanish visitors decreased by 135 per cent, and those by visitors from France by 129 per cent compared to 2011 Accommodation establishments recorded 102 per cent less overnight stays by Estonian visitors compared to December 2011 By region, the total number of overnight stays increased most in December 2012 in Central Ostrobothnia, up by 154 per cent In Kymenlaakso, overnight stays grew by 126 per cent, in North Karelia by 120 per cent and in Lapland by 104 per cent Overnight stays decreased most in Åland, 9 per cent down, and in Varsinais-Suomi, 65 per cent down Overnight stays in the whole country increased by 2 per cent from last year Change in overnight stays in December by region 2012 / 2011, % Overnight stays in hotels increased by 12 per cent in December 2012 In December 2012, the total number of nights spent in hotels was just under 12 million, which was 12 per cent higher than twelve months earlier Overnight stays by foreign tourists increased by 3 per cent and accommodation establishments recorded a total of good 456,000 of them Recorded nights spent by resident tourists in hotels numbered 699,000 The number was 04 per cent lower than in December 2011 The occupancy rate of hotel rooms was 423 per cent in December One year earlier, it was 436 per cent Examined by region, the highest hotel room occupancy rates were recorded in Lapland, 56 per cent, and Uusimaa, 496 per cent In Rovaniemi, the hotel room occupancy rate was 2 per cent and in Vantaa 629 per cent Hotel room occupancy rate in Helsinki was 526 per cent In December, the realised average price of a hotel room was EUR 9054 per day for the whole country Twelve months previously it was EUR 9093 2
Hotel room occupancy rate and the monthly average price Total number of nights spent at all accommodation establishments went up by 16 per cent in January to December 2012 In 2012, the number of nights spent at accommodation establishments in Finland totalled a record 20 million, which was 16 per cent up on the year before Overnight stays by foreign tourists increased by 54 per cent and accommodation establishments recorded a total of 5 million of them Overnight stays by resident tourists numbered 145 million, which was almost the same as in 2011 Accommodation establishments recorded 15 million overnight stays for Russians and, as usual, they were by far the largest group of foreign visitors in 2012 At 11 per cent, the increase in their overnight stays was the largest in January to December Visitors from Germany and Sweden came next with good 500,000 recorded overnight stays each Overnight stays by Swedish visitors decreased by 2 per cent, and those by visitors from Germany by 12 per cent compared to 2011 By contrast, the numbers of overnight stays by visitors from Great Britain increased and was 405,000, which was 42 per cent more than in January-December 2011 Estonian visitors spent 235,000 nights, which was 31 per cent up on twelve months earlier The number of nights spent by visitors from France rose to nearly 21,000, which was 20 per cent up on January-December 2011 However, among the most important countries of inbound tourism into Finland, overnight stays of visitors from Japan increased most, or by 20 per cent, and 1,000 overnight stays were recorded for them In 2012, the biggest decreases in overnight stays were seen for visitors from Spain, down by 255 per cent, and Italy, down by 164 per cent 3
Change in overnight stays in January-December 2012/2011, % 4
Contents Tables Appendix tables Appendix table 1 Capacity and its utilization, December 20126 Appendix table 2 Nights spend in all establishments, December 2012 Appendix table 3 Hotel capacity and capacity utilization, December 2012 Appendix table 4 Nights spend in hotels, December 20129 Appendix table 5 Visitor arrivals and nights spend by country of residence, December 201210 Appendix table 6 Nights spend in all establishments, 201210 5
Appendix tables Appendix table 1 Capacity and its utilization, December 2012 Region / municipality Number of establishments Whole country Mainland Finland Uusimaa Helsinki Varsinais-Suomi Turku Satakunta Pori Kanta-Häme Hämeenlinna Pirkanmaa Tampere Päijät-Häme Lahti Kymenlaakso Kouvola South Karelia Lappeenranta Etelä-Savo Mikkeli Pohjois-Savo Kuopio North Karelia Joensuu Central Finland Jyväskylä South Ostrobothnia Seinäjoki Ostrobothnia Vaasa Central Ostrobothnia Kokkola North Ostrobothnia Oulu Kainuu Kajaani Lapland Rovaniemi Åland Maarianhamina 1 045 1 019 141 59 60 23 36 12 29 12 66 26 32 10 23 33 13 69 13 46 16 49 11 4 13 42 9 2 14 94 12 3 12 1 26 9 Number of bedrooms 5 426 5 505 14 643 50 3 649 2 211 1 511 36 1 431 4 343 2 5 1 910 63 1 143 539 1 00 925 2 12 593 2 605 1 20 1 561 30 2 996 1 45 1 12 560 1 241 6 543 36 4 265 1 53 2 133 452 992 1 3 921 500 Occupancy rate of bedrooms % 39, 40,3 49,0 52,4 36,6 41,1 26, 31, 2, 29,5 34,3 39,9 3 40,2 24,6 25,0 42,2 4,9 26, 33, 34,6 39,5 30, 3,4 35,5 33,5 30,3 3, 34,4 42,3 26,6 32,3 3, 4,0 3,3 26, 51,9 5,5 13,9 19,9 the occupancy rate compared to previous year, %-units -1,5-1,5-2,5-3,3-1,4-0,1-2,6-1,5-0, -1,3-5,9 -,4 0,,0-1,1-3,1-1,3-2,9-3, -,1 1,3-6,4-3,3-3,3 0,6-0,6-1,9-1,5-0, 4,6 2,3-1,4-0,5 Average price of in euros (incl VAT 9 %) 4,9 4,4 61,46 62,2 4,03 46,4 4,94 43 46,95 50,5 49,23 52,06 41,3 50,41 4,3 44,4 46,5 45,6 39,49 46,29 42,93 4,29 43,36 4,5 39,6 52,51 41,44 52,2 53,21 56,42 53,29 55,56 3,63 4,0 3,6 4,1 41,93 51,52 6
Appendix table 2 Nights spend in all establishments, December 2012 Region / municipality total Whole country Mainland Finland Uusimaa Helsinki Varsinais-Suomi Turku Satakunta Pori Kanta-Häme Hämeenlinna Pirkanmaa Tampere Päijät-Häme Lahti Kymenlaakso Kouvola South Karelia Lappeenranta Etelä-Savo Mikkeli Pohjois-Savo Kuopio North Karelia Joensuu Central Finland Jyväskylä South Ostrobothnia Seinäjoki Ostrobothnia Vaasa Central Ostrobothnia Kokkola North Ostrobothnia Oulu Kainuu Kajaani Lapland Rovaniemi Åland Maarianhamina 1 343 611 1 33 249 322 332 210 21 63 166 41 64 16 903 10 4 21 24 11 512 9 352 52 445 36 0 10 4 14 6 6 64 44 560 26 46 33 15 11 159 51 332 25 5 2 624 13 26 949 23 556 29 603 64 19 591 14 22 464 5 42 114 339 3 5 2 151 5 535 306 054 3 09 5 362 3 990 total, % 2, 2,9-3, -6,1-6,5-15,5 3,5 -, -2,3-5,3 2,5-2,9 12,6 4,3 12,2 9,2 9,1-2,2 2, 12,0 3,6,0 2,5 5,1-10,6 6,4 10,2 15,4,1 4,5 6,1 16,9 10,4-1, -,9-6,0 residents 1 39 15 60 14 3 9 06 53 946 34 60 14 09 9 336 19 221 10 324 1 291 45 14 29 014 394 9 249 5 155 19 62 13 33 23 02 61 41 990 21 25 20 363 9 921 5 495 19 35 2 445 24 16 312 11 631 012 5 02 1 500 30 30 56 295 4 31 90 41 14 52 2 53 1 52 residents, % 1, 1, -4,4 -,5 -,5-4,5 5, 13,9, -0,1 5,0 1,3 6, -2, -3,6-4,0-3,3-3, 0,4 6,3-4,1 6,6 4,5 5,3-10,9 11,4 1, 1,5 9,2 2,3 1,9 5,6 1,5 13,0-0, 12,0 -,0 non-residents 525 213 522 39 14 495 112 653 9 220 004 2 14 1 44 2 02 1 1 061 6 631 064 3 04 5 439 1 519 24 932 12 35 10 113 3 4 9 342 4 62 261 3 346 19 454 3 21 1 15 590 3 29 2 641 452 345 32 39 055 15 56 04 215 53 59 05 2 24 2 13 non-residents, % 4,5 4,6-3,1-4,0-0,4 11, -16,6 2,1-2,9-4,0-29,4-26,5-6,3-11,9 24,2 15, 10,5 36,3 6 52,0 5,5 15,2 32,3 35,5,3-6,9-0,9-5,0-13,0-14,0-9,4-6,0 10,5-1,,0,6 9,3-20,6-4,2
Appendix table 3 Hotel capacity and capacity utilization, December 2012 Region / municipality Number of establishments Whole country Mainland Finland Uusimaa Helsinki Varsinais-Suomi Turku Satakunta Pori Kanta-Häme Hämeenlinna Pirkanmaa Tampere Päijät-Häme Lahti Kymenlaakso Kouvola South Karelia Lappeenranta Etelä-Savo Mikkeli Pohjois-Savo Kuopio North Karelia Joensuu Central Finland Jyväskylä South Ostrobothnia Seinäjoki Ostrobothnia Vaasa Central Ostrobothnia Kokkola North Ostrobothnia Oulu Kainuu Kajaani Lapland Rovaniemi Åland Maarianhamina 633 620 11 53 35 1 24 9 1 43 24 1 15 5 1 2 2 10 24 9 2 10 26 22 10 5 4 11 22 6 9 12 13 6 Number of bedrooms 50 99 50 22 14 22 452 3 105 2 052 1 244 33 1 264 2 3 04 2 51 1 40 600 934 419 1 342 12 1 55 514 2 29 1 100 1 306 0 2 66 1 32 1 459 560 1 193 6 496 35 3 436 1 555 1 62 405 6 322 1 240 51 442 Occupancy rate of bedrooms % 42,3 42, 49,6 52,6 40,3 42,6 29,5 32,5 29,4 29,6 35,1 3,5 33,4 40, 2,1 30, 46,5 52,9 29,3 35,1 36,4 42,2 34,2 3,4 3,4 35,0 35,5 3, 35,3 42,3 2, 33,2 40,2 4,0 42,4 29,9 56, the occupancy rate compared to previous year, %-units -1,3-2,2-3,2-0,2 0, -4,6-3,5-0,9-1,3-6,9 -, 1,1,1-0,9-1, -3,5-2, -2, -5, 2,6 0,9-1,1 -,0-3,1-3,3 0,6-0,3-5,3 3, Room price, euros (Vat inc 9 %) 90,54 90,56 96,55 99,05,65 9,94,12 1, 3,29 6,41 6,2 5,2 3,,13 2,90 0,01 95,93,3 5,69,4 1,0 4,22 9,05 6,09 100,3 6,30 6,25 6,30 1,3 3,2 2,04 3,91,32,33 9,6 6,22 99,55 115,95 1) RevPAR, euros (Vat inc 9 %) 1) RevPar = Average accommodation sales revenue per available room Calculation formula RevPar = Average room price * Occupancy rate,2 15,6 21,9 1, -2, - 3,2 3,64 4,91 52,0 31,30 34,05 23,0 23,35 24,50 25,59 30,26 33,04 24,66 31,6 23,29 24,56 44,60 46,1 2 30,3 29,4 35,5 2,05 2,43 3,3 30,1 2,0 29,61 2,91 35,19 22,5 2,6 31,4 3,59 33,4 22, 56,45 90,1
Appendix table 4 Nights spend in hotels, December 2012 Region / municipality total Whole country Mainland Finland Uusimaa Helsinki Varsinais-Suomi Turku Satakunta Pori Kanta-Häme Hämeenlinna Pirkanmaa Tampere Päijät-Häme Lahti Kymenlaakso Kouvola South Karelia Lappeenranta Etelä-Savo Mikkeli Pohjois-Savo Kuopio North Karelia Joensuu Central Finland Jyväskylä South Ostrobothnia Seinäjoki Ostrobothnia Vaasa Central Ostrobothnia Kokkola North Ostrobothnia Oulu Kainuu Kajaani Lapland Rovaniemi Åland Maarianhamina 1 155 13 1 151 162 310 4 201 5 59 291 40 5 14 53 9 365 1 32 10 41 65 14 4 05 29 52 9 45 11 2 5 426 3 10 21 15 24 063 9 495 45 166 22 66 24 24 12 565 2 45 23 090 2 4 451 1 9 14 22 5 922 4 96 0 101 34 62 59 20 5 504 24 445 66 543 4 651 3 04 total, % -3,1-5,1-4,2-2, 2,2 21,3 3, -11,0-2,3-3,1 0, 2,9-5,2 -,6-1,9-5, 0,2-4,9 0,3 5,3-1, 5, 1,5 6,5-10, 4, 10,2 4,1 2,3 2,2 0,3 12,6 1,4,3 1,1 3, -4,4 residents 699 2 69 0 16 931 93 29 50 94 34 091 12 201 34 16 441 9 256 5 91 42 621 23 35 036 1 4 029 16 422 11 6 19 522 012 3 306 19 351 1 439 9 432 53 6 19 21 26 526 61 14 542 11 631 5 520 4 559 5 9 29 03 4 203 4 00 62 190 13 94 2 201 1 5 residents, % -0,4-0,4-4, -,5-5,2-4,9, 22,2 9,9-1, 1,3 0,0-2,9 -, -11,5-10,0-10,6 -,2-4,9 0,2 -,6 5, 2,,4-1 10,2 1, 4,6-0, 1,5 6, 19,0 2,6 6,3 11,3-4,6 non-residents 456 535 454 05 142 53 10 560 49 6 496 2 33 1 01 1 941 1 162 6 923 6 04 6 36 2 09 4 539 1 39 20 65 9 32 4 541 2 43 6 60 3 415 5 09 3 133 1 0 3 19 951 590 3 23 2 641 402 33 22 113 5 9 12 005 04 15 255 52 649 2 450 2 046 non-residents, % 3, 3, 1, 9, -21,9 14, -30,1-49,1-26,3-25, -3,6-3,5 13,5 6,9-4,2 10, 23,5 29,2-5,3 0, 1,1 2,1 6,2-4,6-15,4-5,0-14,1-14,0-2,4 20,4 11,0-5,4 42,,6,9-0,2-2,2-4,3 9
Appendix table 5 Visitor arrivals and nights spend by country of residence, December 2012 Country of residence Visitor arrivals in all accommodation establishments Total Finland Foreign countries Sweden Germany Russia United Kingdom United States Norway Netherlands Italy France Japan Estonia Spain 65 004 452 13 222 66 13 321 9 36 5 259 35 43 3 2 3 55 3 450 4 45 551 903 12 4 26 Nights spend in all accommodation establishments 1 343 611 1 39 525 213 20 5 26 22 160 0 114 44 42 6 32 39 13 46 23 20 1 15 1 65 12 593 nights spend in all accommodation establishments, % 2, 1, 4,5 6,2 13, 10, -3,6-15,9-3,4-15,4-12,9 3,4-10,2-13,5 Nights spend in hotels 1 155 13 699 2 456 535 19 45 23 21 129 99 542 306 6 350 6 63 12 63 21 099 1 130 13 216 11 216 nights spend in hotels, % -0,4 3, 6,0 3,2, 1-1,4-14,6-4,3-14,4-11, 3,3-0,9-12,9 Appendix table 6 Nights spend in all establishments, 2012 Month Total January February March April May June July August September October November December total total, % 20 31 132 1 402 4 1 45 32 1 39 1 395 24 1 340 52 2 130 40 3 025 94 2 216 99 1 555 13 1 396 29 1 311 43 1 343 611 6,6, 3,9-0,2 0, 4,9-3,5 0, -0,1 2, residents 14 513 16 6 32 1 02 526 1 29 43 1 06 64 952 491 1 55 623 2 293 456 1 513 544 1 152 6 1 01 49 955 449 1 39 residents, % 0,2 1,1 3,6 2, - -1,4 4, -4,2-1,5 0,9 1, non-residents 5 03 956 616 492 431 306 450 440 31 563 3 01 554 4 32 43 03 355 402 495 324 00 355 99 525 213 non-residents, % 5,4 14, 23,0,4 5,2 6,9 5, -1,3 0, 3,5 5,3 4,5 10
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