Analytics, Baltic States – CIS, Covid-19, EU – Baltic States, Tourism

The number of foreign tourists totalled 219.7 thousand (by 23.8% less), the number of Lithuania’s residents – 308.3 thousand (by 18.8% less).

In January 2020, the country’s accommodation establishments received 1.2% less tourists, in February – 2.3% more, while in March, due to the imposed COVID‑19 quarantine in Lithuania – even 58.1% less, than over the respective months in 2019.

In I quarter 2020, the number of overnight stays totalled 1.1 million, or by 20.2% less than a year ago. One guest stayed in an accommodation establishment for, on average, 2.2 nights.

Number of tourists accommodated and overnight stays

In I quarter 2020, hotels, guest houses and motels received 382.3 thousand tourists (by 21.8% less than in the same period of 2019). The number of foreign tourists dropped also by 22% and totalled 184.5 thousand.

In I quarter 2020, the number of rooms in hotels, guest houses and motels totalled 15 thousand (in I quarter 2019, 14.8 thousand), that of beds – 32.7 thousand (in I quarter 2019, 30.5 thousand). Room and bed occupancy rates, against I quarter 2019, decreased by 6.1 and 4.6 percentage points respectively.

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Definitions :

Accommodation establishment — a local kind of-activity unit providing paid short-stay accommodation services.