Denmark Statistics has revealed that in the Easter month of April, a total of 3.2 million overnight stays were registered in hotels, holiday centres, guesthouses, and campsites in Denmark.
According to the same source, Danish guests accounted for 2.1 million overnight stays during this period, while foreign guests accounted for 1.1 million overnight stays, SchengenVisaInfo.com reports.
The majority of foreign overnight stays came from Denmark’s closest neighbouring countries, namely Germany, Sweden, and Norway, which accounted for 517,000 of them in the same month.
Over the past 20 years, the proportion of overnight stays in April from these three neighbouring countries has declined from 67 per cent in April 2004 to 47 per cent in April 2023.
Based on these figures, the share of total foreign overnight stays in April has typically been between 25 per cent and 35 per cent over the past two decades, with exceptions for April 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In April 2023, Denmark had a hotel capacity of 621 hotels. Since statistics collecting began in 1992, the number of hotels open to guests in April has increased by 185, representing a 42 per cent increase. During the same month, the number of hotel rooms doubled, reaching 57,000, and the number of hotel beds increased by 117 per cent to a total of 118,000.
At the same time, Denmark also registered 1.6 million hotel nights, which is a significant increase compared to April 1992, when the number of hotel nights tripled over this period.
Despite the increased capacity, the number of hotel nights has exceeded the capacity growth. This suggests a higher demand for hotel accommodations in April. The capacity utilisation in hotel rooms during April has developed from 42 per cent in 1992 to 58 per cent in 2023, indicating a higher utilisation rate.
Further data shows that, in April of this year, when adjusted for normal seasonal fluctuations, the total number of overnight stays in hotels, holiday centres, campsites, and hostels decreased by 0.1 per cent compared to March 2023. This indicates a slight decline in overnight stays during that specific period.
Looking at the broader timeframe from February to April, there was a decrease of 0.8 per cent in overnight stays compared to the previous three months. As Denmark Statistics points out, this is a slight downward trend in overnight stays over that quarter.
Previously, the same authority revealed that in January of this year, Denmark recorded 1.4 million overnight stays, thus marking an increase of 595,000 more stays compared to the same month of last year. According to Denmark’s Statistics, Danes set a new record for January this year by spending a total of 934,000 overnight stays in the country’s accommodation establishments.