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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: 30 April 2025
Next update: 4 June 2025

Selected figures from the statistics

  • Guest nights
    Guest nights
    March 2025March 2024 -March 2025
    Guest nightsShare of guest nights (per cent)Change in per cent
    TotalNorwegianforeignTotalnorwegian guest nightsforeign guest nights
    Guest nights, total2 832 24564.036.01.6-2.59.7
    Guest nights at commercial accommodation establishment2 564 99569.530.51.5-1.89.9
    Hotels and similar establishments2 105 65571.928.17.85.613.9
    Camping sites156 89981.118.9-34.6-38.8-7.5
    Holiday dwellings and youth hostels302 44146.953.1-9.9-19.30.5
    Intermediaries of holiday homes
    Guest nights at non-commercial accommodation establishments267 25011.089.02.6-30.79.0
    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
    March 2025
    ArrivalsGuest nightsAverage number of nights per arrival
    NorwayForeign national, totalNorwayForeign national, totalNorwayForeign national, total
    The whole country977 982356 1481 782 703782 2921.82.2
    Østfold17 0984 19230 8216 8981.81.6
    Akershus109 39629 611158 23346 2391.41.6
    Oslo184 23893 338326 878195 6321.82.1
    Innlandet67 61024 388158 99383 1032.43.4
    Buskerud57 11418 533115 83760 0262.03.2
    Vestfold24 4436 29543 6759 2641.81.5
    Telemark21 6424 66742 04917 5941.93.8
    Agder39 5504 90074 83110 7611.92.2
    Rogaland71 51712 876131 19329 9551.82.3
    Vestland126 83543 941223 77979 5471.81.8
    Møre og Romsdal40 6435 09871 12610 1131.82.0
    Trøndelag - Trööndelage95 16112 942183 44233 0761.92.6
    Nordland - Nordlánnda56 98237 860102 40264 8271.81.7
    Troms - Romsa - Tromssa39 54741 91771 681105 0221.82.5
    Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku23 47811 09039 87316 9061.71.5
    Svalbard1 2 7284 5007 89013 3292.93.0
    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
    March 2025
    ArrivalsGuest nightsAverage number of nights per arrival
    NorwayForeign national, totalNorwayForeign national, totalNorwayForeign national, total
    The whole country908 283300 5961 513 691591 9641.72.0
    Østfold16 4674 07627 2636 3971.71.6
    Akershus107 92028 839153 66544 2921.41.5
    Oslo176 50287 251289 762167 7211.61.9
    Innlandet55 37817 597104 90856 0771.93.2
    Buskerud47 22311 09485 43828 3001.82.6
    Vestfold23 5176 21140 6349 0231.71.5
    Telemark18 9782 72230 4868 0071.62.9
    Agder35 3144 15455 4126 8251.61.6
    Rogaland65 10111 332115 43926 4471.82.3
    Vestland120 02739 538198 77462 9751.71.6
    Møre og Romsdal37 4584 46459 2087 8281.61.8
    Trøndelag - Trööndelage92 26611 584165 48728 3371.82.4
    Nordland - Nordlánnda51 29727 21283 88441 1001.61.5
    Troms - Romsa - Tromssa36 97730 24561 43371 2891.72.4
    Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku21 1309 77734 00814 0171.61.4
    Svalbard1 2 7284 5007 89013 3292.93.0
    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
    March 2025March 2024 - March 2025
    Guest nightsPer cent
    Total2 564 9951.5
    Foreign national, total782 2929.9
    Norway1 782 703-1.8
    Denmark92 325-16.2
    Finland11 903-5.7
    Sweden81 6493.5
    Belgium10 8986.7
    France33 10620.8
    Italy27 10626.0
    Netherlands31 2945.3
    Poland33 74937.6
    Portugal3 98318.6
    Russia57210.6
    United Kingdom72 15815.1
    Spain17 222-10.1
    Switzerland18 62213.1
    Germany84 656-13.1
    Austria9 6328.4
    India8 77445.0
    Japan3 69882.8
    China19 714127.0
    South Korea1 464-3.9
    United States98 28629.4
    Australia12 34938.4
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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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