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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: 3 September 2025
Next update: 1 October 2025

Selected figures from these statistics

  • Guest nights
    Guest nights
    July 2025July 2024 -July 2025
    Guest nightsShare of guest nights (per cent)Change in per cent
    TotalNorwegianforeignTotalnorwegian guest nightsforeign guest nights
    Guest nights, total7 646 66160.739.39.05.415.1
    Guest nights at commercial accommodation establishment7 384 38561.138.99.04.517.0
    Hotels and similar establishments3 848 19360.139.99.11.223.6
    Camping sites2 898 73665.834.29.88.911.5
    Holiday dwellings and youth hostels637 45646.253.85.03.56.3
    Intermediaries of holiday homes
    Guest nights at non-commercial accommodation establishments262 27649.750.38.147.8-14.6
    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
    July 2025
    ArrivalsGuest nightsAverage number of nights per arrival
    NorwayForeign national, totalNorwayForeign national, totalNorwayForeign national, total
    The whole country2 096 2371 627 7364 513 9712 870 4142.21.8
    Østfold50 90016 693161 72723 9763.21.4
    Akershus130 94758 403218 10991 3611.71.6
    Oslo193 505202 333388 217404 6002.02.0
    Innlandet268 707145 691555 267225 3952.11.5
    Buskerud111 22857 848226 61084 7622.01.5
    Vestfold94 25834 182483 271153 2125.14.5
    Telemark112 45334 148275 16864 3562.41.9
    Agder200 53062 843529 978123 1352.62.0
    Rogaland108 42679 106219 859142 1472.01.8
    Vestland290 089392 413516 017658 0981.81.7
    Møre og Romsdal107 820126 575202 461207 0511.91.6
    Trøndelag - Trööndelage180 32186 592322 319153 9771.81.8
    Nordland - Nordlánnda163 878183 342260 866301 3261.61.6
    Troms - Romsa - Tromssa50 92480 43796 273136 0591.91.7
    Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku29 96358 85853 15184 0461.81.4
    Svalbard1 2 2888 2724 67816 9132.02.0
    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.
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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
    July 2025
    ArrivalsGuest nightsAverage number of nights per arrival
    NorwayForeign national, totalNorwayForeign national, totalNorwayForeign national, total
    The whole country1 392 063920 1772 313 3711 534 8221.71.7
    Østfold36 8638 74459 72212 8041.61.5
    Akershus124 82254 829178 65385 5921.41.6
    Oslo172 132177 621323 878333 7261.91.9
    Innlandet133 87364 590207 10384 2761.51.3
    Buskerud74 02133 846119 54042 2081.61.2
    Vestfold58 96427 283170 761136 6632.95.0
    Telemark48 0729 33573 05113 3961.51.4
    Agder115 10520 108207 02932 4431.81.6
    Rogaland84 84334 209146 51760 7841.71.8
    Vestland183 780223 957289 263345 6821.61.5
    Møre og Romsdal68 49455 30995 20274 2121.41.3
    Trøndelag - Trööndelage136 25246 467202 92869 7001.51.5
    Nordland - Nordlánnda94 76079 584138 219120 8171.51.5
    Troms - Romsa - Tromssa36 90144 98059 36266 9021.61.5
    Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku20 89731 16337 47739 1931.81.3
    Svalbard1 2 2848 1524 66616 4242.02.0
    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.
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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
    July 2025July 2024 - July 2025
    Guest nightsPer cent
    Total7 384 3859.0
    Foreign national, total2 870 41417.0
    Norway4 513 9714.5
    Denmark168 50919.8
    Finland112 1117.5
    Sweden312 07214.7
    Belgium67 1018.0
    France125 2699.2
    Italy73 97441.4
    Netherlands278 01020.8
    Poland91 52927.0
    Portugal7 646-10.9
    Russia1 97831.0
    United Kingdom105 73928.9
    Spain65 91716.1
    Switzerland115 10318.1
    Germany623 5828.4
    Austria42 24729.2
    India13 37134.1
    Japan7 81712.3
    China52 14770.4
    South Korea19 000-6.0
    United States267 12825.3
    Australia25 10147.0
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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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