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During the third quarter of 2023, guests spent 309.4 million nights in short-term rental accommodation in the EU, booked via Airbnb, Booking, Expedia Group or TripAdvisor. This corresponds to an increase of 13.4% compared with the same period in 2022.

With this value, platform tourism continued to exceed pre-pandemic levels and set new monthly record values: in July, 115.7 million nights were spent in accommodation booked via online platforms, showing an increase of 10.7% compared with July 2022. In August, this number increased to 124.7 million nights (+11.7% compared to August 2022) and in September, that number was 69.1 million (+21.6% compared with September 2022).

In the first nine months of 2023, guests spent more than 546.2 million nights in EU short-term rental accommodation booked via online platforms. This is a significant growth compared with the same period in 2022 (488.6 million nights; +11.8%); with nights spent far exceeding pre-pandemic levels (423.7 million nights in the first nine months of 2019; +28.9%).

Line chart: Monthly guest nights in the EU, 2019 - 2023, nights spent in short-stay accommodation offered via online platforms, in millions

Source dataset: tour_ce_omr

This information comes from monthly data on short-stay accommodation offered via online platforms for the third quarter of 2023 at the national level, published by Eurostat today. In addition, regional data for the second quarter of 2023 are also being released. These data are collected from four private collaborative economy platforms as part of an agreement with the European Commission in March 2020. Regional data are released one quarter later than the national data, in accordance with the rules set out in the agreement. 

This news item presents several highlights from the more detailed Statistics Explained article. For a more in-depth analysis, please also refer to our annual article.

Top destinations in the second quarter of 2023: Spanish, Croatian and French regions

The most popular regions for short-term rental accommodation booked via online platforms in the second quarter of 2023 were Andalucía in Spain (7.1 million nights), Jadranska Hrvatska in Croatia (6.5 million) and the French region Île de France (5.8 million).

In the top 20 regions, 7 are in Spain, 5 each in France and Italy, 2 regions are in Portugal and 1 in Croatia.

Source dataset: tour_ce_omn12