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HELSINKI TOURISM STATISTICS
Market Report / December 2009
Bednights up in December:
Domestic nights clearly up in December In Helsinki both leisure and business nights increased clearly among domestic visitors in December. Business nights also increased among foreign visitors, which can be regarded as a sign of gradual economic recovery. On the other hand leisure travel from abroad declined in December, in contrast with development in the preceding months. This can be attributed mainly to a drop in Russian visitors. At the annual level leisure nights increased by over 43,000 on the domestic market in 2009 but fell by more than 17,000 for foreign visitors.
Total + 4.5% Domestic + 16.8% Foreign countries - 4.0% Up: Sweden, Japan, Norway, The Netherlands, China, Switzerland, Poland Down: Great Britain, Germany, Russia, USA, Italy, Spain, France, Estonia, Belgium, India.
Leisure travel up in in 2009: Leisure nights: + 25,900 Business nights: - 210,900 Other reason: + 11,300.
Occupancy rate up in December 53.3% (51.1% in December 2008 and 55.1% in December 2007).
Occupancy rate improved in December
Average price of accommodation* down in December:
The room occupancy rate at accommodation establishments in Helsinki was 53.3% in December, which was two percentage points higher than the figure in December 2009 (51.1%). Room capacity, over 8,200, remained on roughly the same level as the year before. The average price of accommodation fell clearly and was €60.60 in December. The last time the figure for December was lower than this was in 1998. As a result accommodation sales fell by about €800,000. Foreign visitors' average length of stay increased in Helsinki. The reason was no doubt the rise in the relative share of leisure travel.
Kari Halonen Marketing Director
60.60 EUR / night (67.77 EUR in December 2008 and 67.05 EUR in December 2007).
Air traffic unchanged in January: The number of passengers at Helsinki-Vantaa Airport in January 2010: International traffic: + 1.5% Domestic traffic: - 7.0% Total: - 0.3%.
Ship traffic up in 2009: Passenger traffic at the ports of Helsinki: Total traffic: + 1.2% Passengers in Swedish traffic: + 1.2% Passengers in Estonian traffic: + 1.4% Passengers in German traffic: - 10.5% *price per person in all accommodation facilities
Monthly bednights in Helsinki 400 000
350 000
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150 000 2006
2007
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100 000 Tammikuu January
Helmikuu February
Maaliskuu March
Huhtikuu April
Toukokuu May
Kesäkuu June
Heinäkuu July
Elokuu August
Syyskuu September
Lokakuu October
Marraskuu November
Joulukuu December
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