[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 November 2018

Main variables of tourism accommodation for the Autonomous Region of Madeira had a negative performance

Initial estimates of tourism accommodation for November 2018 show a decrease in the number of overnight stays and total income, both by 1.0%. Lodging revenue decreased by 3.8%.

In the month of reference, the number of overnight stays in the Autonomous Region of Madeira stood at 578.6 thousand. Total revenue and revenue from accommodation amounted to 27.0 and 17.0 million euros, respectively.

The overnight stays in hotel establishments dropped by 3.2% year-on-year and were responsible for 85.0% of the total, while the overnight stays in local lodging increased by 15.8% compared to the same month of the previous year and accounted for 13.3% of the total. In turn, rural tourism, which represented 1.7% of the total, registered a 2.1% decrease 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 -4.4% and 38.8%, respectively, compared to November 2017. The main foreign markets had a negative performance with the French, German and British markets declining by 11.7%, 10.9% and 0.3%, respectively.

Considering the January to November period, overnight stays decreased by 1.0% year-on-year, while total revenue went up by 1.6% and lodging revenue increased by 1.8%.

The bed occupancy rate in the reference month reached 53.9%, dropping by 4.0 percentage points over the same month of the previous year.

The average income per room (RevPAR) recorded a year-on-year change rate of -7.8%, decreasing to € 35.6. In hotel establishments, the RevPAR decreased by 7.2% in November 2018, to € 38.82.

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