Tourist arrivals and overnight stays, December 2021

Most domestic tourist overnight stays in health (spa) resorts

In December 2021, domestic tourists generated 71% of all tourist overnight stays in tourist accommodation establishments in Slovenia. They generated almost twice as many overnight stays as in December of record breaking 2019.

  • 25 January 2022 at 10:30
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  • provisional data
Domestic tourists generated 546,400 overnight stays

In December 2021, tourist accommodation establishments in Slovenia recorded approximately 295,000 tourist arrivals and almost 766,300 overnight stays. Many more tourist arrivals and overnight stays were recorded than in December 2020, due to eased COVID-19 epidemic measures in the field of tourism.

Domestic tourists generated approximately 212,700 arrivals and 546,400 overnight stays, which is almost twice as many as in December 2019.

Foreign tourists generated slightly more than 82,200 arrivals (62% fewer than in December 2019) and 219,900 overnight stays (56% fewer than in December 2019).

Most foreign overnight stays generated by tourists from Croatia

Most foreign overnight stays in December 2021 were generated by tourists from Croatia (almost 27,700 or 13% of all foreign overnight stays). They were followed by tourists from Italy (11%), Austria (8%), Serbia (8%) and Germany (6%).

Approximately the same number of tourist overnight stays in mountain and health (spa) resorts

As regards the types of municipalities, most tourist overnight stays in December 2021 were recorded in mountain resorts (231,400 or 30% of all overnight stays) and health (spa) resorts (228,000 or 30% of all overnight stays), followed by seaside resorts (13%) and Ljubljana (10%). 

While domestic tourists generated the most overnight stays in health (spa) resorts (198,400 or 36% of all domestic overnight stays), foreign tourists generated the most overnight stays in the municipality of Ljubljana (57,200 or 26% of all foreign overnight stays).

Hotels the most popular among accommodation establishment types

Domestic and foreign tourists generated the most overnight stays in hotels (405,000 stays or 53% of all overnight stays and 12% fewer than in December 2019), followed by private accommodations - rented rooms, dwellings (24% of all overnight stays or 25% more than in December 2019) and apartment settlements (3% of all overnight stays or 20% fewer than in December 2019).

In 2021, more than 11 million tourist overnight stays

From the beginning of January to the end of December 2021, approximately 4 million tourist arrivals (31% more than in the same period in 2020) and approximately 11.3 million overnight stays (22% more than in the same period in 2020) were recorded in Slovenia.

More detailed provisional monthly data on tourist arrivals and overnight stays are published in the SiStat Database.
Tourist arrivals and overnight stays, Slovenia, December 2020 and December 2021 − provisional data
Tourist arrivals and overnight stays, Slovenia, December 2020 and December 2021 − provisional data
Tourist arrivals and overnight stays by key markets from which the tourists come, December 2021 – provisional data
Tourist arrivalsOvernight stays
XII 2021I–XII 2021XII 2021
XII 2020
I–XII 2021
I–XII 2020
XII 2021I–XII 2021XII 2021
XII 2020
I–XII 2021
I–XII 2020
number
number
index
index
number
number
index
index
Total294,9144,003,4643,134.4130.6766,29311,251,3781,095.3122.2
Domestic212,6652,170,9984,202.9117.4546,3946,456,4431,388.7110.4
Foreign82,2491,832,4661,891.2150.7219,8994,794,935718.2142.9
  from Croatia11,60063,1583,706.177.027,687165,2071,171.273.7
  from Italy13,048161,7963,507.5101.725,061353,5711,812.197.0
  from Austria8,226171,2653,973.9119.916,973433,5272,828.8116.2
  from Serbia5,06044,3941,653.6104.016,717152,203381.1107.3
  from Germany4,488414,2221,580.3143.313,0641,070,557612.2131.5
Tourist arrivals and overnight stays by types of tourist municipalities and by tourist accommodation establishments, December 2021 – provisional data
Tourist arrivalsOvernight stays
XII 2021I–XII 2021XII 2021
XII 2020
I–XII 2021
I–XII 2020
XII 2021I–XII 2021XII 2021
XII 2020
I–XII 2021
I–XII 2020
number
number
index
index
number
number
index
index
Total294,9144,003,4643,134.4130.6766,29311,251,3781,095.3122.2
Types of tourist municipalities
  health (spa) resorts76,384742,5643,844.2117.8227,9232,554,556937.6113.5
  mountain resorts95,2401,286,7955,007.4127.2231,4263,344,0322,743.0117.9
  seaside resorts35,871780,1824,396.0127.399,0472,670,3501,030.1120.3
  Ljubljana, the capital36,890415,2391,755.0162.977,811865,866830.9160.3
  urban municipalities20,219249,4251,722.2135.756,319585,883509.8128.6
  other municipalities30,310529,2592,122.5142.573,7671,230,6911,026.0136.6
Tourist accomm. establishments
  hotels164,4511,661,3462,743.6132.6405,0034,525,7791,006.3125.8
  private accommodations - rented rooms, dwellings68,460881,8653,923.2130.7179,9272,681,5011,904.0119.6
  apartment settlements8,96987,039179,380.090.725,859303,79911,492.984.7
  camping sites9,835602,32842,760.9133.725,1931,776,4344,614.1125.2
  temporary accommodation establishments and marinas1,05843,1394,600.0118.420,947222,205225.5119.4
METHODOLOGICAL NOTE

Final data on tourist arrivals and overnight stays for December 2021 will be published on 25 February 2022 in the SiStat Database. 

Data are not seasonally adjusted.

As few tourist arrivals and overnight stays were recorded in December 2020, the values of indices of tourist arrivals and overnight stays for December 2021 are unusually high.
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