Accommodation, February 2004

Like the Norwegians, the Danes chose the county Oppland as their camping destination in February, while the Swedes and the Germans spent most time in the counties Buskerud and Vest-Agder respectively.

Domestic guest nights dominates

Norwegian residents constituted about seven out of ten guest nights at the collective accommodation establishments. For the camping sites this share was 85 per cent, while the corresponding share for the hostels were 55 per cent. The holiday dwellings on the other hand, had more foreign guest nights than Norwegian ones.

1.58 million guest nights

February this year there were 1.58 million guest nights at the Norwegian collective accommodation establishments. The figures are not directly comparable with those for the same period last year, due to some holiday dwellings now reporting their statistics as the number of guest nights and not as the number of unit nights. The average size of the visiting parties is higher than three people for these holiday dwellings. This is one of the reasons why there is an increase in the number of guest nights.

If we exclude the holiday dwellings that now report in guest nights, the remaining collective accommodation establishments experienced a good eight per cent increase when comparing February 2004 with the same month last year.

Tables:

• Table 1 Camping sites. Number of camping sites, by month and county. 2004
• Table 2 Camping sites. Guest nights, by nationality of the guests and county. February 2004
• Table 3 Camping sites. Guest nights, by nationality of the guests and county. January-February 2004
• Table 4 Camping sites. Guest nights, by type of accommodation and county. February 2004
• Table 5 Camping sites. Guest nights, by type of accommodation and county. January-February 2004
• Table 6 Camping sites. Guest nights, by type of accommodation and month. 2004
• Table 7 Holiday dwellings. Number of holiday dwellings, by month and county. 2004
• Table 8 Holiday dwellings. Guest nights, by nationality of the guests and county. February 2004
• Table 9 Holiday dwellings. Guest nights, by nationality of the guests and county. January-February 2004
• Table 10 Guest nights, by nationality of the guests and type of establishment. February 2004
• Table 11 Guest nights, by nationality of the guests and type of establishment. January-February 2004