Overnight stays by foreign visitors in Lapland increased by one fifth in December 2022

January 27, 2023
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Press release from Business Finland

According to Statistics Finland’s preliminary data, the number of nights spent by visitors was 12 per cent higher in December 2022 than one year earlier.

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In total, 1.07 million overnight stays were recorded for resident visitors, which is five per cent more than in December 2021. For non-resident visitors, 0.73 million overnight stays were recorded, which is nearly one quarter more than in December 2021.

Line chart on the number of overnight stays by resident and non-resident tourists by month from January 2019 to December 2022. The number of overnight stays by non-resident tourists started to grow gradually in the latter half of 2021 after the drop caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The number of overnight stays by resident tourists has grown in places to an even higher level than before the pandemic.

Key Points

  • In Lapland, overnight stays numbered 0.55 million in total, of which 80 per cent were by foreign visitors.
  • A new one-month record for overnight stays by foreign visitors was attained in Lapland. The previous record from December 2019 was exceeded by eight per cent.
  • In the whole country the highest numbers of foreign visitors came from Great Britain, France and Germany. British visitors accounted for nearly one third of all overnight stays by foreign visitors.
  • The hotels in Rovaniemi were almost sold out. In the whole country, the occupancy rate of hotel rooms was 47 per cent.
  • In Rovaniemi, the average price of a hotel room was EUR 301. In the whole country, the average price of a hotel room was EUR 134.

Originally published on 27 January.

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