[NOTE: Since the reference month of January 2018, the preliminary monthly results cover the entire collective tourist accommodation sector, which aggregates hotel establishments (hotels, apartment hotels, tourist apartments, tourist villages, “pousadas” and “Quintas da Madeira”), rural tourism and local lodging. Consequently, the data released this month are different from those presented by INE in its press release, which maintains the old model. It should be highlighted, that in the publication edited by DREM, Table I.6 summarises the main information according to the previous model and for that reason, the values presented in this table coincide with those published monthly by INE. It should also be noted that for the variables establishments, capacity, bed occupancy rate, income and RevPAR, the data excludes local lodging establishments with a capacity of less than 10 beds. From the present release of information onwards, a new table, with data only for the hotel establishments will be available. Please notice that these data will not match the information released by INE, since it does not include “estalagens” (lodging houses) and “pensões” (boarding houses), which were reclassified as local lodging in DREM’s data.]

In October 2018

Positive contribution of the national market was insufficient to avoid year-on-year drop on the overall overnight stays

Initial estimates of tourism accommodation for October 2018 show a decrease in the number of overnight stays (-0.9%). Total and lodging revenue also decreased by 1.3% and 1.9%, respectively.

In the month of reference, the number of overnight stays in the Autonomous Region of Madeira stood at 729.3 thousand. Total revenue and revenue from accommodation amounted to 36.6 and 23.8 million euros, respectively.

The overnight stays in hotel establishments dropped by 3.4% year-on-year and were responsible for 84.2% of the total, while the overnight stays in rural tourism increased by 0.4% compared to the same month of the previous year and accounted for 1.8% of the total. Local lodging, which represented 14.0% of the total, registered a 17.0% increase in overnight stays.

Looking at the data broken down by market, it should be highlighted that the year-on-year change rates in nights spent by foreign and Portuguese tourists were -4.1% and 28.4%, respectively, compared to October 2017. The German (-6.1%) and British (-1.7%) markets had a negative performance, while the French market increased by 9.1%.

Considering the January to October period, overnight stays decreased by 1.0% year-on-year, while total and lodging revenue went up by 1.8% and 2.3%, respectively.

The bed occupancy rate in the reference month reached 63.0%, dropping by 2.3 percentage points over the same month of the previous year.

The average income per room (RevPAR) recorded a year-on-year change rate of -3.4%, decreasing to € 46.73. In hotel establishments, the RevPAR decreased by 2.6% in October 2018, to € 51.08.

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