Where does this data come from?
All numbers come from Eurostat, the EU’s official statistics office. We use their hotel nights and guest arrival datasets, which cover all 27 EU countries.
All numbers come from Eurostat, the EU’s official statistics office. We use their hotel nights and guest arrival datasets, which cover all 27 EU countries.
Daily briefing — European travel
We also tracked 76 candidate events this run that didn't need to surface — see why.
For people
Read the daily report
Plain-language event reports with sources and corroboration.
For machines
Use the API + MCP
Same data, machine-readable: versioned JSON endpoints and an MCP server. /data/api/v1/events.json
The long view
Tourism is one of Europe’s biggest industries. This tool shows how 27 EU countries attract visitors and fill hotel rooms — month by month, from 2015 through COVID and into recovery.
3.1B
nights spent at EU hotels and accommodation in 2025
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How many nights visitors spent at hotels and other accommodation
EU total (2025)
3.1B
nights spent
Growing fastest
🇮🇹 Italy
+14.9% vs last year
Biggest drop
🇱🇺 Luxembourg
-2.7% vs last year
Sorted by total nights spent. Click any country to see its trends.
Italy
535.5M nights
Spain
512.9M nights
France
471.6M nights
Germany
440.2M nights
Greece
156.3M nights
Netherlands
146.5M nights
Austria
134.5M nights
Poland
104.7M nights
Croatia
94.8M nights
Portugal
89.4M nights
Sweden
65.7M nights
Czechia
59.1M nights
Belgium
46.1M nights
Ireland
41.9M nights
Denmark
40.8M nights
Hungary
33.1M nights
Romania
29.7M nights
Bulgaria
28.8M nights
Finland
23.3M nights
Cyprus
18.7M nights
Slovenia
17.8M nights
Slovakia
15.6M nights
Malta
12.5M nights
Lithuania
9.2M nights
Estonia
6.7M nights
Latvia
5.0M nights
Luxembourg
3.6M nights