Romanians sleep more and more in hotels abroad: 27 nights for every 100 at home in 2008, 62 in 2025

Romania compared with its neighbours

The same calculation for residents of six countries: nights slept in Italy, Greece, Spain, Germany and Austria, for every 100 nights slept in hotels in their own country. None of the six is among the five destinations, so all six use the same destinations.

In 2008 Romania ranked 3rd of the six, at 27: Hungary (44) and Czechia (36) had a higher ratio, Slovakia (25), Bulgaria (20) and Poland (19) a lower one. In 2019 it ranked 3rd again (39), behind Czechia (44) and Bulgaria (40). From 2020 Romania is first, and in 2025 it stands at 62, against 48 for Hungary. In 2020, the pandemic year, Romania fell to 29, the others to 15–18.

Between 2019 and 2025 Romania rose 23 points; the next largest rise, in Slovakia, was 16 points. Over the whole of 2008–2025 Romania’s rise (35 points) is the largest of the six.

What is not counted

• The data cover the accommodation units included in each country’s statistics: hotels and similar, holiday and other short-stay accommodation, campsites. They do not include stays with relatives or friends, and rentals between private persons may be missing.
• Countries without a series in this table are missing: Egypt, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, Thailand, and the United Kingdom after 2015 (its series breaks).
• Nights, not holidays: business trips are in the nights. In Italy, Germany and Austria part of them are business; the data do not say how many.
• Turkey counts by citizenship, and its series in this table starts in 2018, so it stays out of the big number. Bulgaria counted by citizenship in the past and today’s rule cannot be read from public documents; it appears on the map but also stays outside the big number. For the other countries the rule was not checked.
• The same calculation over 23 countries with a complete series since 2008 (without Turkey, with Bulgaria) gives 39 per 100 in 2008 and 93 in 2025, close to the nights at home; with Turkey, the 2025 nights would be 26.1 million, more than at home. This calculation includes countries with an unknown rule, so it does not appear in the headline.
• Romania’s household survey, also published by Eurostat, shows fewer nights for the same countries than the accommodation units in the destination countries count. The available data do not explain the discrepancy; the comparison therefore uses only the destination countries’ numbers.
• The data do not explain why the ratio rose: ticket prices, incomes and habits were not tested.

Method and sources

The source is the Eurostat table tour_occ_ninraw: nights spent in collective tourist accommodation (hotels and similar, holiday and other short-stay accommodation, campsites), by country of residence of the guest, as counted by the host country. The data were downloaded on 7 November 2026 and cover 2007–2025. Eurostat allows reuse with attribution.

The headline number is the sum of nights by residents of Romania in Italy, Greece, Spain, Germany and Austria, divided by the nights residents of Romania spent in collective accommodation in Romania, in the same year. For the other five countries, the same ratio with their own country as “home”. The five countries assign the guest by residence, according to their own documents:

• Italy: ISTAT, methodology note for Eurostat
• Greece: ELSTAT, explanatory notes, December 2024
• Spain: INE, methodological notes
• Germany: Destatis, quality report
• Austria: Statistik Austria, reporting FAQ

Turkey’s series: from 2022 the ministry’s statistics also include simple-certificate establishments, which can raise the level against earlier years. Ministry of Culture and Tourism, metadata. Eurostat, tour_occ_ninraw