The Latvian hospitality trade won’t return to pre-pandemic ranges

On the similar time, the variety of nights spent in Latvian lodges and different locations for vacationer lodging by overseas visitors within the first 4 months of 2024 in comparison with the identical interval in 2023 elevated by 4.5% and amounted to 595,000, and the variety of in a single day stays by native residents elevated by 2 .1% and amounted to 434,900.

In complete, within the first 4 months of this yr, 598,700 visitors had been served in vacationer lodging, which is 7.7% greater than within the first 4 months of 2023, together with the variety of overseas visitors served elevated by 9.6% and amounted to 334 200, and the variety of native residents served grew by 5.3% to 264,500.

In comparison with the pre-pandemic interval – the identical interval in 2019 – the variety of visitors served in vacationer lodging within the first 4 months of 2024 was 10% decrease, whereas the variety of nights spent by visitors lags behind knowledge for the primary 4 months of 2019 by 21.4%.

In April of this yr, the variety of nights spent by visitors in Latvian lodges and different locations for vacationer lodging didn’t change considerably in comparison with April 2023 and amounted to 305,400, together with the variety of nights spent by overseas visitors elevated by 0.4%, reaching 186,700, and the variety of nights spent by native residents decreased by 0.6% to 118,700.

The typical size of keep of native visitors in vacationer lodging in April this yr was 1.68 nights, whereas in April final yr it was 1.69 nights, and the common size of keep of overseas visitors in vacationer lodging in April was 1.77 nights, then as in April final yr – 1.88 nights.

In Latvian vacationer lodging services, 176,200 visitors had been served in April, which is 4.1% greater than in April 2023, together with the variety of overseas visitors served elevated by 7.1% and reached 105,700, and the variety of native visitors served residents decreased by 0.1%, amounting to 70,500 folks.

The biggest variety of overseas visitors in April this yr was acquired from Lithuania – 14,900. Subsequent comes Estonia, from which 13,000 visitors who spent the night time in Latvia got here, Germany – 9,500, Finland – 7,800, the UK – 6,200, Poland – 5,700, Spain – 4,400 , Sweden – 4300, USA – 3200.

Most overseas visitors had been acquired in Riga – 80.1%, Jurmala – 6.2%, Marupe area – 4.2%, Liepaja – 2% and Daugavpils – 1.1%.

The most well-liked locations of residence for Latvian residents in April had been in Riga, the place 34.4% of visitors stayed, in Jurmala – 10.4%, in Liepaja – 8.3%, in Daugavpils – 4.8%, within the Cesis area – 3, 5%, in Sigulda and Kuldiga areas – 3%.