[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 September 2018 

Positive contribution of the national market did not offset the year-on-year drop on the overall overnight stays. Revenue with a slight increase

Initial estimates of tourism accommodation for September 2018 show a decrease in the number of overnight stays (-2.1%). Inversely, total and lodging revenue increased by 0.8% and 0.9%, respectively.

In the month of reference, the number of overnight stays in the Autonomous Region of Madeira stood at 803.7 thousand. Total revenue and revenue from accommodation amounted to 42.8 and 27.6 million euros, respectively.

The overnight stays in hotel establishments dropped by 3.5% year-on-year and were responsible for 85.3% of the total, while the overnight stays in rural tourism decreased by 1.8% compared to the same month of the previous year and accounted for 1.8% of the total. Local lodging, which represented 13.0% of the total, registered a 8.1% 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 -3.6% and 8.6%, respectively, compared to September 2017. The British (-4.6%) and German (-3.1%) markets had a negative performance, while the French market increased by 7.5%.

The bed occupancy rate in the reference month reached 71.0%, dropping by 3.4 percentage points over the same month of the previous year.

The average income per room (RevPAR) recorded a year-on-year change rate of -1.4%, decreasing to € 54.83. In hotel establishments, the RevPAR increased by 0.3% in September 2018, to € 60.21. 

Fewer rounds played in Madeira’s golf courses

The data from the Golf Course Survey show that the number of rounds played in the three golf courses of the Autonomous Region of Madeira in the first nine months of 2018 stood at 46,701 (-1.2% compared to the corresponding period of 2017). 74.3% of those rounds were played by non-members, mainly coming from the Nordic countries, Germany and the UK. 57.5% of the total rounds were sold by hotel establishments and similar, 23.1% by tour operators, and the remaining 19.4% by the golf courses themselves.

Number of transit passengers aboard cruise ships in Madeira’s ports increased

According to the data provided by the Port’s authority, 312,379 transit passengers aboard cruise ships were counted in the January to September 2018 period, a 8.7% increase when compared to the previous year. The number of cruise ships that visited Madeira  also rose by 5.7% (up by 9 over the first nine months of 2017).

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