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Accommodation

The statistics show the level and development of guest nights at hotels, camping sites, holiday dwellings and youth hostels, and private holiday homes rented through Norwegian intermediaries. Figures are published monthly at various geographical levels.

Updated: 1 October 2025
Next update: 30 October 2025

Selected figures from these statistics

  • Guest nights
    Guest nights
    August 2025August 2024 -August 2025
    Guest nightsShare of guest nights (per cent)Change in per cent
    TotalNorwegianforeignTotalnorwegian guest nightsforeign guest nights
    Guest nights, total5 683 36654.445.64.3-1.612.3
    Guest nights at commercial accommodation establishment5 518 26155.344.74.7-1.413.3
    Hotels and similar establishments3 323 03359.640.43.5-2.814.4
    Camping sites1 631 37951.548.56.80.714.1
    Holiday dwellings and youth hostels563 84940.859.25.93.67.6
    Intermediaries of holiday homes
    Guest nights at non-commercial accommodation establishments165 10524.875.2-8.3-15.0-5.8
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  • Commercial accommodation establishments. Arrivals, guest nights and average number of nights per guest
    Commercial accommodation establishments. Arrivals, guest nights and average number of nights per guest
    August 2025
    ArrivalsGuest nightsAverage number of nights per arrival
    NorwayForeign national, totalNorwayForeign national, totalNorwayForeign national, total
    The whole country1 588 6271 442 7883 050 9712 467 2901.91.7
    Østfold36 75013 08388 94518 7422.41.4
    Akershus137 31866 458208 153100 9651.51.5
    Oslo195 827221 847364 902446 0541.92.0
    Innlandet182 260116 756367 526176 7162.01.5
    Buskerud86 29352 503165 77774 6551.91.4
    Vestfold49 76615 710168 99624 9123.41.6
    Telemark60 21229 009131 29452 7432.21.8
    Agder105 32249 419229 79397 0412.22.0
    Rogaland102 13276 572185 087134 5431.81.8
    Vestland223 005387 805397 621634 6281.81.6
    Møre og Romsdal76 868102 162138 096169 4071.81.7
    Trøndelag - Trööndelage141 67859 600266 273117 9781.92.0
    Nordland - Nordlánnda104 923142 024182 765234 3371.71.6
    Troms - Romsa - Tromssa52 43061 19198 062106 7201.91.7
    Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku31 49142 33952 24462 9011.71.5
    Svalbard1 2 3526 3105 43714 9482.32.4
    1Svalbard is not defined as a county in the legal sense, but in official statistics Svalbard is treated in the same way as the other counties in Norway.
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  • Hotels. Arrivals, guest nights and average number of nights per guest
    Hotels. Arrivals, guest nights and average number of nights per guest
    August 2025
    ArrivalsGuest nightsAverage number of nights per arrival
    NorwayForeign national, totalNorwayForeign national, totalNorwayForeign national, total
    The whole country1 227 040853 6631 980 0021 343 0311.61.6
    Østfold29 8237 44545 81810 7171.51.4
    Akershus133 15063 626187 60695 9181.41.5
    Oslo177 772185 106310 431352 8461.71.9
    Innlandet104 96053 640162 03571 5821.51.3
    Buskerud62 07630 994102 52539 0211.71.3
    Vestfold36 6829 33263 13112 8941.71.4
    Telemark35 0047 24153 14110 7761.51.5
    Agder73 86515 086125 97822 4881.71.5
    Rogaland83 64933 053142 04559 6071.71.8
    Vestland171 311233 139279 684346 9181.61.5
    Møre og Romsdal58 34547 56684 38665 5941.41.4
    Trøndelag - Trööndelage117 26235 201190 08856 2041.61.6
    Nordland - Nordlánnda75 80268 282120 586101 1281.61.5
    Troms - Romsa - Tromssa41 67536 25368 16155 5221.61.5
    Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku23 32321 48838 97227 1701.71.3
    Svalbard1 2 3416 2115 41514 6462.32.4
    1Svalbard is not defined as a county in the legal sense, but in official statistics Svalbard is treated in the same way as the other counties in Norway.
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  • Commercial accommodation establishments. Guest nights by guests' country of residence, selected countries
    Commercial accommodation establishments. Guest nights by guests' country of residence, selected countries
    August 2025August 2024 - August 2025
    Guest nightsPer cent
    Total5 518 2614.7
    Foreign national, total2 467 29013.3
    Norway3 050 971-1.4
    Denmark88 3879.0
    Finland50 4240.1
    Sweden166 3655.6
    Belgium51 82514.1
    France128 8388.8
    Italy145 76626.6
    Netherlands237 3539.8
    Poland75 45023.1
    Portugal9 920-9.4
    Russia1 505-4.3
    United Kingdom112 70025.6
    Spain95 27611.1
    Switzerland63 86313.2
    Germany585 5169.8
    Austria33 48120.4
    India9 457-6.7
    Japan9 78926.8
    China53 39163.3
    South Korea16 683-10.8
    United States250 03417.0
    Australia19 06622.4
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About the statistics

The information under «About the statistics» was last updated 18 September 2025.

The number of businesses for all accommodation establishments corresponds to the number of establishments open to the public at least one day during the reference period.

Commercial guest nights: Guest nights at hotels, short-term holiday dwellings, camping sites and youth hostels.

Hotels and similar accommodation: establishments that offer accommodation typically on a daily or weekly basis, principally for short stays by visitors. This includes the provision of furnished accommodation in guest rooms and suites. Services include daily cleaning and bed-making.

Country of residence: International visitors are classified by the country where they reside, not necessarily their citizenship. From a tourism perspective, anyone who relocates from one country to another, and stays for longer than a year, is considered residing in that country. Citizenship is indicated in the person's passport (or other identification documents), while the country of residence must be determined using a question or inferred e.g. from the person's address.

Guest night: One person accommodated one night. A person can have several guest nights.

Arrival: a person who arrives at an accommodation establishment for overnight stay. An arrival counts only once regardless of how long they stay.

Beds and rooms correspond to the number of beds and rooms in businesses open to the public. The number of rooms and beds represent two different ways of measuring hotel capacity. In theory, hotels with only double rooms can obtain an occupancy rate of 100 per cent, while the bed capacity is 50 per cent only. The utilization of the room and the utilization of bed capacity may, therefore, develop differently from one period to another.

The utilization of bed capacity corresponds to the number of guest nights in per cent of the number of available beds, where the number of available beds is the number of beds multiplied by the establishment's number of open days during the reference period.

The utilization of room capacity corresponds to the number of occupied rooms in per cent of the number of available rooms, where the number of available rooms is the number of rooms multiplied by the establishment's number of open days during the reference period.

Revenue at hotels are the sales figure for the accommodation activity, not including any breakfast or other extra services, even though they might be included in the price of the stay. Sales are published without any VAT.
From January 1st, 2016, the VAT for accommodation sales increased from 8 to 10 per cent. From January 1st, 2018, VAT increased from 10 to 12 per cent. This may affect some comparability over time. During the COVID-19 pandemic, VAT was temporarily reduced to 6 percent, effective from April 1st 2020 until 30th September 2021.

The three purposes of guest nights at hotels are divided as follows,
Course, conference are guests who are at a course or a conference, independent of whether the conference is at the hotel or in the area. If the guest has a joining family member, the family member will be registered as a course, conference guest.

Occupation is guests who are traveling for business, contractors, public employees or equivalent, and are staying at a hotel while conducting their business. If family members join, they too will be registered as occupation, even though the family members may be traveling for holiday purposes.

Holiday, recreation are guests who are traveling for holiday or recreation.

Holiday dwellings are self-catering huts/rooms with limited service. The service does not include the making of beds, cleaning of rooms, and sanitary equipment. The establishments must be under the same management, be run on a commercial basis, and have their own reception.

Camping sites are establishments that provide accommodation in caravans, tents and campers. They can also offer accommodation in huts but are classified as holiday dwellings if they have only huts.

The total capacity for a camping site is the total number of huts and areas for tents/caravans or campers, including seasonal contracts.

Seasonal contract: Caravan/tent on seasonal contract means the rent of an area is at a fixed price irrespective of use.

A private cabin/holiday house/apartment/room is one built primarily for private, not commercial, purposes.

Region is a level between county and the entire country. The regions consist of a certain number of counties.

Tourism region is a regional classification (standard) for a level between county and municipality (66 units). These regions have been designated by a tourism bureau or other agency within the tourism industry in collaboration with Statistics Norway. Tourism regions should not overlap the county borders.

The survey is classified according to the Standard Industrial Classification 2007 (SIC2007), a Norwegian adaptation of EUROSTATs NACE standard. For more information, refer to NACE 55 (Accommodation) in https://www.ssb.no/en/klass/klassifikasjoner/6.
Standard for county: https://www.ssb.no/en/klass/klassifikasjoner/104
Standard for municipality: https://www.ssb.no/en/klass/klassifikasjoner/131
Standard for tourism region: https://www.ssb.no/en/klass/klassifikasjoner/527
Standard for region: https://www.ssb.no/en/klass/klassifikasjoner/106

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