Tourist accommodation establishments in Poland welcomed some 38.8 million visitors last year, a 7.2% increase compared to 2023, new data from Statistics Poland has revealed.
Collectively, these tourists accounted for a total of 97.6 million overnight stays, a 5.2% increase year-on-year.
Despite this growth, the overall occupancy rate of bed places declined slightly last year, to 40.1%, down by 0.4 percentage points compared to 2023.
Tourist accommodation
As of the end of July last year, Poland had a total of 10,354 tourist accommodation establishments, a 5.6% increase on 2023.
Collectively, these facilities offered some 839,400 bed places, a 5.8% increase on the previous year, with the density of bed places per square kilometre rising to 2.7.
The highest number of bed places were found in the Zachodniopomorskie (153,700), Pomorskie (115,800), and Małopolskie (103,500) voivodships.
Some 30.5 million tourists stayed in hotels and similar facilities in Poland last year, with hotels alone accounting for 26.3 million guests, up by 4.2%, Statistics Poland noted.
Other types of establishments hosted 8.4 million tourists, with holiday centres the most popular among these, attracting 1.9 million tourists.
Tourists by region
Poland’s Mazowieckie Voivodship welcomed the highest number of tourists (6.9 million) in 2024, followed by Małopolskie (6.1 million) and Dolnośląskie (4.5 million), while the fewest tourists visited Opolskie (0.4 million).
Increases were recorded in 15 out of 16 voivodships, with Zachodniopomorskie seeing the largest increase (10.7%), and Śląskie the only region to see a decrease in tourists (0.4%).
Foreign tourists made up 20.3% of all accommodated guests, equating to some 7.9 million people, with the majority coming from Germany (1.8 million), Ukraine (887,600), the United Kingdom (692,400), and the United States (557,200).
July and August were the busiest months for Poland’s tourism sector, accounting for 23.5% of all tourists, according to Statistics Poland. Read more here.
