Tourist arrivals and overnight stays, Slovenia, December 2020

In 2020, 42% fewer tourist overnight stays in Slovenia than in 2019

Due to the second wave of the COVID-19 epidemic, in December 2020 the tourism flow in Slovenia was stunted. Tourist accommodation establishments recorded around 70,000 overnight stays, which is 9% of the overnight stays recorded in December 2019.

29 January 2021 at 10:30
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provisional data

Teja Zupančič
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In December 2020, tourist overnight stays only as exceptions defined in detailed explanations of the Government Ordinance on the Provisional Prohibition on the Offering and Sale of Goods and Services to Consumers in the Republic of Slovenia

In November 2020, the Government issued detailed explanations of the mentioned Ordinance to the field of accommodations, where exceptions were listed. Also according to the explanations, the Ordinance does not regulate the field of business to business performance.

In December 2020, tourist accommodation establishments recorded around 9,300 tourist arrivals (97% fewer than in December 2019) and 70,600 overnight stays (91% fewer than in December 2019).

While domestic tourists generated 5,000 arrivals (5% of the arrivals recorded in December 2019) and almost 40,000 overnight stays (14% of the overnight stays in December 2019), foreign tourists generated around 4,300 arrivals (2% of the arrivals recorded in December 2019) and almost 31,000 overnight stays (6% of the overnight stays in December 2019).

Most foreign tourist overnight stays in December 2020 were generated by tourists from Bosnia and Herzegovina (more than 4,800 overnight stays or 16% of all foreign overnight stays), Serbia (14%), Croatia (8%), North Macedonia (7%), Germany (7%) and Italy (5%).

Most overnight stays were generated in health (spa) resorts (around 24,300 or 34% of all overnight stays), followed by urban municipalities (16% of all overnight stays), seaside resorts (14% of all overnight stays) and municipality Ljubljana, the capital (also 14% of all overnight stays).

57% of all overnight stays in December 2020 were recorded in hotels.

42% fewer tourist overnight stays in 2020 than in 2019

In 2020, tourists generated just over 3 million arrivals (51% fewer than in 2019) and just over 9.2 million overnight stays (42% fewer than in 2019).

While in 2020 domestic tourists generated 21% more arrivals and 33% more overnight stays than in 2019, foreign tourists generated 74% fewer arrivals and 71% fewer overnight stays.

In 2020, most foreign tourists from Germany, Austria and Italy

Most foreign tourist overnight stays in 2020 were generated by tourists from Germany (almost 814,000 or almost a quarter of all foreign overnight stays), followed by Austria and Italy (both 11%), Croatia (7%), Hungary and the Netherlands (both 5%).

More data in the SiStat Database

More detailed provisional monthly data on tourist arrivals and overnight stays are published in the SiStat Database.

A table Tourist arrivals and overnight stays by countries, municipalities, Slovenia, monthly was added in the SiStat Database.

Tourism flow, Slovenia − provisional data

Source: SURS

Tourist arrivals and overnight stays by key markets from which the tourists come, December 2020 – provisional data

	Tourist arrivals				Overnight stays
	XII 2020	I–XII 2020	XII 2020 XII 2019	I–XII 2020 I–XII 2019	XII 2020	I–XII 2020	XII 2020 XII 2019	I–XII 2020 I–XII 2019
	number	number	index	index	number	number	index	index
Total	9,397	3,065,073	2.9	49.2	70,601	9,205,012	9.0	58.4
Domestic	5,053	1,848,964	4.6	121.0	39,701	5,850,374	14.0	132.8
Foreign	4,344	1,216,109	2.0	25.9	30,900	3,354,638	6.2	29.5
of foreign
from Bosnia and Herzegovina	476	34,763	8.4	48.2	4,879	116,631	31.8	59.5
from Serbia	301	42,675	3.1	29.5	4,232	141,717	16.8	37.3
from Croatia	313	82,062	1.3	34.9	2,488	224,359	4.8	41.7
from North Macedonia	81	8,391	4.9	37.3	2,225	31,834	47.0	53.5
from Germany	284	289,143	2.8	49.4	2,103	813,962	7.1	53.5

Source: SURS

Tourist arrivals and overnight stays by types of tourist municipalities and by tourist accommodation establishments, December 2020 – provisional data

	Tourist arrivals				Overnight stays
	XII 2020	I–XII 2020	XII 2020 XII 2019	I–XII 2020 I–XII 2019	XII 2020	I–XII 2020	XII 2020 XII 2019	I–XII 2020 I–XII 2019
	number	number	index	index	number	number	index	index
Total	9,397	3,065,073	2.9	49.2	70,601	9,205,012	9.0	58.4
Types of tourist municipalities
Health (spa) resorts	1,987	630,408	2.5	62.4	24,339	2,250,228	10.1	65.3
Mountain resorts	1,880	1,011,446	2.6	53.9	8,294	2,836,896	4.7	61.2
Seaside resorts	817	612,943	2.2	64.1	9,762	2,220,666	10.1	73.6
Ljubljana, the capital	2,102	254,964	2.7	22.6	9,580	540,410	6.7	24.3
Urban municipalities	1,181	183,831	3.8	35.4	11,252	455,633	16.6	43.6
Other municipalities	1,430	371,481	4.6	50.3	7,374	901,179	12.6	64.1
Tourist accomm. establishments
Hotels	5,978	1,252,786	3.0	41.0	40,291	3,596,352	8.7	49.1
Private accommodations - rented rooms, dwellings	1,742	674,614	3.0	57.4	9,728	2,242,849	6.8	68.5
Temporary accommodation establishments and marinas	30	36,432	1.3	40.9	9,402	186,215	59.8	52.1
Inns	569	73,942	10.1	57.1	2,333	172,914	20.3	69.5
Overnight accommodations	248	77,148	2.9	44.3	2,220	208,380	11.6	54.4

Source: SURS

METHODOLOGICAL NOTE

Final data on tourist arrivals and overnight stays for December 2020 will be published on 25 February 2021 in the SiStat Database.

Data are not seasonally adjusted.

Explanation of data for November 2020

Final monthly data for November 2020, published in the SiStat Database, differ significantly from published provisional monthly data for this period due to issued Government explanations of the Ordinance on the Provisional Prohibition on the Offering and Sale of Goods and Services to Consumers in the Republic of Slovenia that were taken into consideration when preparing the final data.

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