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Friday, 19.04.2024, 11:06
Nights spent by guests at Latvia's hotels rose by 12% in January-October
The number of nights spent by foreign guests in Latvia's hotels and other
tourist facilities in the first ten months of 2017 rose by 11.6% year-on-year
to 2.972 million in January-October.
In January-September this year, the Latvian hotels and other tourist
facilities received 2.056 million guests, up 11.6% against the same period in
2016 when they saw the number of guests grow 12.7% to 1.418 million.
In the first ten months of this year Latvian hotels and tourist facilities
received 2.243 million guests, which is by 11.3% more than in the respective
period last year, while the number of foreign guests increased by 12.3% to 1.55
million.
The biggest number of guests came from Russia (201,100), Germany (192,600),
Lithuania (155,800), Estonia (134,000), Finland (102,300). The number of guests
from Russia increased by 13.4%, from Germany – by 10%, from Lithuania – by 13.4%,
from Estonia – by 9%, and from Finland – by 15.5%.
In 2016 Latvian hotels and other tourist facilities received 2.304 million
guests, up 7.7% from 2015, while the number of nights increased by 7.5% to 4.417
million.