KSH: Guest nights up by 5.8% year-on-year in September
Guest nights spent by foreign visitors rose by 13.3% to 1,761,000.
Guest nights spent by foreign visitors rose by 13.3% to 1,761,000.
Budapest, Szentendre, on the outskirts of the capital, and Pécs, in the southwest of Hungary, are all big draws for Chinese tourists.
Concerning next year’s event, Tamás Kádár said organizers aimed to sell more full festival passes than day tickets.
Numerous accommodation providers have recently complained about not receiving money owed to them totalling several billion forints.
Péter Horváth said guest nights grew by 4% to 12.2 million in January-May, supported by foreign visitors.
The first official group of Chinese tourists since the outbreak of the pandemic arrived in Budapest at Ferenc Liszt International Airport on a direct Air China flight from Chongqing.
According to official figures, nights spent by domestic tourists increased by 4.3% to 830,000, while those spent by foreign visitors rose by 44.4% to 908,000.
The show of over 50 of El Greco’s works runs until February 19.
The number of guest nights spent by domestic travellers rose by 1.6% to 856,000, and guest nights spent by foreign visitors increased by 15.0% to 842,000.
602,000 Hungarians had spent 3 million guest nights in Croatia last year.
The Hungarian Tourism Agency noted that it had requested the scheme be extended to the country’s 16,000 catering establishments and 4,500 commercial accommodations.
The foreign minister said direct airline services are vitally important for economic relations because both businesspeople and tourists give preference to destinations accessible without any transfer.
The number of bookings at commercial accommodations in Hungary for September and October are “well over” the number in the same period a year earlier and suggest fourth-quarter guest nights could exceed levels in 2019.