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HELSINKI TOURISM STATISTICS
Market Report / February 2010
Bednights clearly up in February:
Nights up nearly 20% No single reason can be given for Helsinki's strong growth (+ 19.2%) in nights in February. On the other hand last year nights in February fell sharply compared with the year before, and this year's figure was still 15,000 lower than the level in 2008. The favourable development of the global economy is perhaps the most significant reason for the rise in nights. Growth was recorded in both leisure and business travellers' nights, among Finns as well as foreigners. The only major market to show a clear drop was Germany. According to preliminary information from other parts of Europe, this was part of a general problem involving Germany and was not limited to Helsinki. Thanks to the strong growth in February we are now ahead of the objective of a 2.0% increase for the whole year, with nights in January-February up 6.5%. Significant changes in the average length of stay are not visible, however. Visitors from abroad still spend over 2 nights in Helsinki on average, while the average length of stay on the domestic market is about 1.45 nights.
Total + 19.2% Domestic + 24.8% Foreign countries + 14.1% Up: Great Britain, Germany, Sweden, Russia, Japan, Italy, Norway, The Netherlands, China, Spain, France, Estonia, India, Poland Down: Germany, USA, Denmark, Switzerland, Belgium.
Leisure travel clearly up in in January-February: Leisure nights: + 22,600 Business nights: + 4,000 Other reason: - 1,800.
Occupancy rate up in February 57.2% (47.7% in February 2009 and 62.9% in February 2008).
Average price of accommodation* down in February: 65.76 EUR / night (72.79 EUR in February 2009 and 75.61 EUR in February 2008).
International air traffic up in January-March: The number of passengers at Helsinki-Vantaa Airport in Jan-March 2010: International traffic: + 3.3% Domestic traffic: - 4.0% Total: + 1.6%.
Ship traffic down in January-February:
Kari Halonen Marketing Director
Passenger traffic at the ports of Helsinki: Total traffic: - 4.4% Passengers in Swedish traffic: - 9.3% Passengers in Estonian traffic: - 1.4% Passengers in German traffic: - 15.9% *price per person in all accommodation facilities
Monthly bednights in Helsinki 400 000
350 000
300 000
250 000
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150 000 2007
2008
2009
2010
100 000 Tammikuu January
Helmikuu February
Maaliskuu March
Huhtikuu April
Toukokuu May
Kes채kuu June
Hein채kuu July
Elokuu August
Syyskuu September
Lokakuu October
Marraskuu November
Joulukuu December
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