Overnight stays made in 2020 in tourist accommodation that are not non-hotel hotels, such as apartments, campsites, rural tourism accommodation and hostels, fell almost 59% due to the pandemic. They reached 52.2 million, according to provisional data published this Monday by the National Institute of Statistics (INE).
As with hotels, the collapse of foreign tourism is also evident in this type of accommodation and it is the nationals who sustained the demand. Specifically, resident tourists spent 32.5 million nights in these accommodations, which represents a drop of 36.5%, compared to the 19.7 million that foreigners did, 73.9% less.
It is the third consecutive year in which overnight stays in tourist accommodation that are not hotels have fallen, although the fall this time has been so pronounced by the Covid effect.
45% of the total of these stays were made in tourist apartments, with a drop of 67% compared to 2019. 41.6% of the total overnight stays were in campsites (with a drop of 46%), 12% in rural tourism accommodation (with a decrease of 46%) and 1.4%, in hostels.
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In December, 85,212 accommodations of this type were open in Spain, which is 33.7% less than in the same month of 2019, which represents 61% of all establishments.
The main countries of origin were the British (with 22.0% of the total overnight stays by non-residents), the German (17.2%) and the French (11.5%).
By communities, The Canary Islands were the preferred destination, although nights in this type of accommodation fell by 69.7% compared to 2019. It was followed by Catalonia (with more than 24 million and a decrease of 71.1%) and Andalusia (with more than 23 million and a decrease of 66.3%).
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