What are Europeans’ favorite EU journey locations?

EU residents took holidays in different EU international locations for nearly per week lengthy in 2024, with Greece and Romania recording the longest stays by guests, based on the most recent Eurostat information.

Both international locations surpassed the EU imply with round 9 nights on common.

By distinction, Estonia and Belgium had been the locations the place vacationers spent the shortest stays, with 3.1 and three.6 nights, respectively.

These variations in journey period throughout the European Union are sometimes linked to transportation accessibility and proximity to different international locations.

For occasion, the value and distance to succeed in Greece, Spain, or Cyprus, together with their recognition as vacation locations, inspire vacationers to remain longer.

On the opposite hand, Belgium’s proximity and accessibility to the Netherlands and France make brief visits of some days extra probably.

Visitors spent on common €851 per journey, starting from €344 in Slovakia to €1,476 in Cyprus.

Around one in 4 journeys within the EU came about throughout August (12.8%) and July (11.7%).

What is EU vacationers’ favorite kind of lodging?

More than two-thirds of nights within the EU are spent in rented vacationer lodging.

Hotels or comparable lodging got here out on prime with 39%, whereas 25% of all intra-EU tourism nights had been spent at a home, villa, or flat, and solely 7% in campsites.

Despite short-term leases being among the many most utilized by EU vacationers, the European Commission promised an upcoming piece of laws on short-term leases to deal with the housing disaster.

The EU has recognized short-term rental platforms equivalent to Airbnb, TripAdvisor, and Expedia as a serious driver of Europe’s reasonably priced housing scarcity, however has not specified how far it intends to manage them.

Local authorities have extra energy than nationwide governments on this entrance, and in some circumstances, they’ve already acted.

EU residents made 250 million tourism journeys of no less than one in a single day keep to locations in different EU international locations in 2024.

Just underneath half of these journeys (44%) used a motorcar as their main mode of transportation.

This was adopted by airplane, at 41%, prepare, at 7%, and bus, at 5%.