In January 2015
Overnight stays in Madeira’s hotel establishments rose by 8.1% and total revenue increased by 7.3% year-on-year
Initial estimates for January 2015 show increases in the tourism indicators with positive year-on-year rates of change in overnight stays (+8.1%), total revenue (+7.3%) and lodging revenue (+10.4%).
At the country level, the rates of change stood at 13.4% in nights spent, 18.1% in total revenue and 17.9% in revenue from accommodation.
In the month of reference, the number of overnight stays in the Autonomous Region of Madeira topped 391 thousand, the best result for the month of January since 2005.
Looking at the data broken down by market, it should be highlighted that the year-on-year change rates in nights spent by the Portuguese and foreign tourists were +41.6% and +5.4%, respectively, compared to January 2014.
The bed occupancy rate in the reference month reached 46.6%, 2.3 percentage points higher than a year before and the highest among the seven NUTS2 Portuguese regions.
The average income per room (RevPAR) recorded a year-on-year change rate of +6.8%, increasing to € 27.20.