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Tourism
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Hotels and other tourist accommodation establishments: visitors and nights spent
- number of visitors and nights spent
Recreational and business trips of Latvian residents
- trips around Latvia and abroad
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In 2019, number of visitors hosted at Latvian tourist accommodation establishments has grown by 1.6 %
Specifying data on Daugavpils and Jelgava cities, changes were made: indicator in Daugavpils is larger than the previously published one, but Jelgava is not among most popular places of stay of Latvian residents:
"Out of all foreign visitors, majority (75 %) stayed in Riga, 8.9 % – in Jūrmala, 2 % – in Liepāja, 1.9 % – in Sigulda county, 1.4 % – in Ventspils and 1.5% – in Daugavpils. Latvian residents stayed mostly in Riga (25.1 % of visitors), Jūrmala (9.3 %), Liepāja (7.3 %), Ventspils (3.3 %), Daugavpils (4.6 %), Sigulda county (2.8 %)."
2.85 million foreign and Latvian visitors stayed at Latvian tourist accommodation establishments in 2019, which is 1.6 % more than in 2018. Compared to the previous year, the number of nights spent by visitors increased by 2.6 %, reaching 5.51 million. The average length of stay comprised 1.9 nights.
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EU data on tourism
Information on tourism in EU-28 and in each country separately is available in the homepage of Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat)
World Tourism Organization
World Tourism Organization compiles and disseminates tourism statistics of countries all over the world.