The number of nights spent in tourist accommodation establishments across the European Union stood at 3.1 billion last year, an increase of 4.1% compared with 2024, according to Eurostat.
This figure also represents a rise of 26.5% compared with 2015, when EU tourist accommodation establishments recorded around 2.5 billion nights.
In 2025, around four fifths (80.9%) of nights were spent by domestic tourists or visitors from other EU countries, equating to around 2.5 billion nights in total.
Tourists from other European countries accounted for a further 10.4% of nights. Visitors from the Americas represented 4.9%, or 155.5 million nights, while tourists from Asia accounted for 2.6%, equivalent to 81.6 million nights. Elsewhere, Oceania represented 0.5% (15.2 million) and Africa 0.4% (12.9 million).
The strongest growth between 2024 and 2025 came from tourists from Asia, where the number of nights increased by 15.4%, followed by visitors from Africa, which reported an increase of 13.7%. Compared with 2015, meanwhile, the number of nights spent by visitors from North, Central and South America more than doubled, increasing by 101.9%.
Tourism intensity
Eurostat’s data also highlights significant differences in tourism intensity across EU countries, i.e. the ratio of nights spent at tourist accommodation establishments relative to the total permanent resident population of the area.
This stood at 7.0 tourist accommodation nights per inhabitant in 2025, up from 6.7 in 2024.
Croatia recorded the highest tourism intensity, with 24.5 nights per inhabitant, followed by Malta (21.7), Cyprus (19.4), Greece (15.1) and Austria (14.6).
At the other end of the scale, Romania recorded just 1.6 nights per inhabitant, followed by Latvia (2.7), Poland (2.9) and Slovakia (2.9).
Tourism intensity covers ‘visitor flows in rented accommodation and does not include stays at second homes, visits to friends and relatives, same-day visitors and stays at smaller establishments’, Eurostat added. Read more here.
