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Overnight stays in Swiss hotels drop to 3.4 mln in Sept.

Xinhua, November 5, 2015 Adjust font size:

The Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO) reported Thursday that the number of hotel stays in Switzerland fell by 1 percent in September, down 33,000 compared to the same period last year.

Reporting some 3.4 million overnight stays, FSO indicated that the number of stays attributed to Swiss guests decreased by 2.5 percent (1.5 million stays), while the number of foreign guests registered a 0.3 percent increase, reaching 1.8 million.

Figures show that the number of EU guests staying in Switzerland decreased by 9.4 percent, with the biggest drop recorded by German visitors (minus 16 percent).

Guests hailing from Asia on the other hand are on the increase, with a 25.9 percent rise in overnight hotel stays documented two months ago.

Chinese tourists generated an additional 40,000 nocturnal stays in September, representing a 40.5 percent increase. This follows a similar rise in August, when 38.2 percent more Chinese nationals stayed overnight in the confederation compared to August 2014.

FSO indicated that 9 out of 14 Swiss tourist regions registered a drop in overnight hotel stays in September compared to September 2014.

The cumulative total of nocturnal hotel stays in the confederation between January and September this year stands at 28.5 million, down 0.5 percent compared to the same period in 2014. Endit