There were almost as many short-term accommodation reservations via online platforms last year as before the covid-19 epidemic

The collaborative economy in tourism is gaining strength again after the covid-19 epidemic

Although the covid-19 epidemic greatly affected the entire tourist activity and thus also the area of the cooperative economy in tourism, the year 2022 was marked by the return of foreign tourists to Slovenia, while the collaborative economy.

Accommodation facilities for short-term stays in Slovenia, according to SKD 2008, classified in group 55.2, i.e. the activity of vacation homes and similar accommodation establishments for short-term stays, received almost 273,000 reservations last year through the four largest international online booking platforms (Airbnb, Booking, Expedia Group and Tripadvisor). This was almost once moreč than in 2021 or 11 % less than in 2019.

Based on these reservations, a little less than 2.5 million tourist overnight stays were created in total. This was once moreč than in 2021 and 5 % less than in 2019.

9 out of 10 reservations made via online platforms by foreign tourists

Last year, foreign tourists made 246,000 reservations in accommodation facilities for short-term stays in this way, which is 90% of all reservations made, and almost 2.3 million overnight stays, i.e. 92 % of all overnight stays arranged in this way.

Accommodation of tourists in short-term accommodation facilities booked through online platforms

These establishments received an average of 747 reservations per day, on the basis of which 6,700 overnight stays were created per day, with an average of 9 per reservation (8.4 in 2019).

According to the officially published data on accommodation statistics, which still take into account data on overnight stays created on the basis of the aforementioned reservations, last year tourists generated 5.7 million overnight stays in holiday homes and similar accommodation facilities for short-term stays. ; 43 %s were therefore arranged with reservations via the aforementioned four platforms.

Distinctive season in summer

Just like before and during the covid-19 epidemic, in 2022 the largest reservations of accommodation facilities for short-term stays via online platforms made in July and August. These also apply to the months with the highest tourist accommodation in Slovenia.

During this period, a total of 113,000 reservations were made in this way and last year, on the basis of which a little less than 1.2 million overnight stays were created. This was almost half of all such overnight stays in 2022. In July last year, compared to the same month in 2019, 4 #141 more were created. of this type of accommodation.

A fifth of the overnight stays arranged through reservations via online platforms were created by tourists from Germany.

In 2022, tourists from Germany generated almost 446,000 overnight stays in the accommodation establishments in question based on reservations via online platforms, or a fifth of all overnight stays by foreign tourists in these establishments. They were followed by tourists from the Czech Republic and Hungary.

Among tourists from countries with created more than 100,000 overnight stays of this type compared to 2019, the share of overnight stays increased in almost all of them, mostly among tourists from Germany (34 more overnight stays), Poland (26 %) and ÄŒeÅ of Hungary and Austria (21 % each). The exception was tourists from the United Kingdom – they created 36 % fewer such overnight stays than in 2019, Italy (24 % less) and France (2 % less).

Last year, domestic tourists made approximately the same number of such reservations and 3 #141; accommodation as in 2019.

A third of these overnight stays in the Gorenje statistical region

Last year, tourists created the largest share of such overnight stays in the Gorenje statistical region (808,000 or 33 %). It was a bit moreč as in 2019 (1 % več). According to the share of overnight stays, it was followed by the Osrednjeslovenia and the Coastal Karst statistical regions (22 %s in each). Compared to 2019, the number of such overnight stays in 2022 was a third less in the first, and 18 #141 more in the second.

In the capital, the number of overnight stays dropped by a third

In Ljubljana, 484,000 overnight stays were created last year in accommodation establishments for short-term stays based on reservations via online platforms, or 35 % less than in 2019. This, similar to 2019, represented 90 #141 of such overnight stays in the Central Slovenian statistics. the region.