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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: 4 June 2025
Next update: 3 July 2025

Selected figures from these statistics

  • Guest nights
    Guest nights
    April 2025April 2024 -April 2025
    Guest nightsShare of guest nights (per cent)Change in per cent
    TotalNorwegianforeignTotalnorwegian guest nightsforeign guest nights
    Guest nights, total2 545 29971.428.611.58.320.4
    Guest nights at commercial accommodation establishment2 413 64073.526.510.67.021.9
    Hotels and similar establishments1 819 44874.026.04.8-0.322.6
    Camping sites321 76786.613.452.554.242.2
    Holiday dwellings and youth hostels272 42554.845.215.917.913.5
    Intermediaries of holiday homes
    Guest nights at non-commercial accommodation establishments131 65933.566.530.9105.010.8
    Explanation of symbols
  • 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
    April 2025
    ArrivalsGuest nightsAverage number of nights per arrival
    NorwayForeign national, totalNorwayForeign national, totalNorwayForeign national, total
    The whole country902 898300 8421 773 548640 0922.02.1
    Østfold21 5344 22842 4687 0072.01.7
    Akershus88 69521 374130 08132 6241.51.5
    Oslo147 78288 925274 059185 8731.92.1
    Innlandet69 14312 377180 86732 7362.62.6
    Buskerud47 57010 922113 50930 5282.42.8
    Vestfold30 0749 17965 16619 4442.22.1
    Telemark23 6303 00349 3127 9412.12.6
    Agder53 6225 770107 63912 5112.02.2
    Rogaland66 21413 325124 01030 1271.92.3
    Vestland132 43661 115247 921117 1171.91.9
    Møre og Romsdal39 8958 32177 87017 9672.02.2
    Trøndelag - Trööndelage83 24912 715166 42631 6312.02.5
    Nordland - Nordlánnda47 94019 97092 05641 7621.92.1
    Troms - Romsa - Tromssa29 11620 75457 99351 3142.02.5
    Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku18 9474 72435 59010 6551.92.3
    Svalbard1 3 0514 1408 58110 8552.82.6
    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.
    Explanation of symbols
  • Hotels. Arrivals, guest nights and average number of nights per guest
    Hotels. Arrivals, guest nights and average number of nights per guest
    April 2025
    ArrivalsGuest nightsAverage number of nights per arrival
    NorwayForeign national, totalNorwayForeign national, totalNorwayForeign national, total
    The whole country800 092250 3781 345 559473 8891.71.9
    Østfold19 6943 95229 7936 2411.51.6
    Akershus87 08420 710124 87031 3251.41.5
    Oslo139 75282 470239 357158 5591.71.9
    Innlandet49 6258 64693 67122 4711.92.6
    Buskerud36 9887 99273 42516 8052.02.1
    Vestfold27 4868 93451 21818 5651.92.1
    Telemark18 8442 17730 6614 8851.62.2
    Agder44 7604 48472 2297 9501.61.8
    Rogaland59 88610 45299 19322 6761.72.2
    Vestland116 32949 432197 71585 8771.71.7
    Møre og Romsdal34 5796 76153 88111 5421.61.7
    Trøndelag - Trööndelage77 29710 267129 50018 5081.71.8
    Nordland - Nordlánnda41 31313 01367 71723 3221.61.8
    Troms - Romsa - Tromssa26 74313 44144 43027 8261.72.1
    Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku16 6613 50729 3186 4821.81.8
    Svalbard1 3 0514 1408 58110 8552.82.6
    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.
    Explanation of symbols
  • Commercial accommodation establishments. Guest nights by guests' country of residence, selected countries
    Commercial accommodation establishments. Guest nights by guests' country of residence, selected countries
    April 2025April 2024 - April 2025
    Guest nightsPer cent
    Total2 413 64010.6
    Foreign national, total640 09221.9
    Norway1 773 5487.0
    Denmark36 91822.6
    Finland14 17817.7
    Sweden68 389-11.4
    Belgium7 215-20.8
    France27 71020.1
    Italy23 72654.6
    Netherlands26 0249.5
    Poland34 86032.5
    Portugal4 3733.5
    Russia649-7.9
    United Kingdom74 28937.3
    Spain20 77944.4
    Switzerland14 25450.2
    Germany81 57525.2
    Austria7 05232.8
    India7 59145.8
    Japan1 806-0.6
    China14 973103.8
    South Korea2 27215.5
    United States71 75837.9
    Australia7 60635.5
    Explanation of symbols

About the statistics

The information under «About the statistics» was last updated 2 April 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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