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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: 2 April 2025
Next update: 30 April 2025

Selected figures from this statistics

  • Guest nights
    Guest nights
    February 2025February 2024 -February 2025
    Guest nightsShare of guest nights (per cent)Change in per cent
    TotalNorwegianforeignTotalnorwegian guest nightsforeign guest nights
    Guest nights, total2 675 84860.139.96.41.315.1
    Guest nights at commercial accommodation establishment2 299 45966.733.32.1-1.510.2
    Hotels and similar establishments1 866 88669.930.13.2-0.613.1
    Camping sites135 78180.119.9-4.3-3.7-6.5
    Holiday dwellings and youth hostels296 79240.559.5-1.4-8.94.3
    Intermediaries of holiday homes
    Guest nights at non-commercial accommodation establishments376 38919.680.442.7143.629.7
    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
    February 2025
    ArrivalsGuest nightsAverage number of nights per arrival
    NorwayForeign national, totalNorwayForeign national, totalNorwayForeign national, total
    The whole country834 916319 8301 533 197766 2621.82.4
    Østfold16 9684 38427 2786 6641.61.5
    Akershus86 18625 400127 30639 8381.51.6
    Oslo164 81177 975283 198161 4691.72.1
    Innlandet60 14629 764149 874119 4542.54.0
    Buskerud44 59919 73799 51684 3672.24.3
    Vestfold18 0403 33927 7915 3921.51.6
    Telemark19 1895 57438 72924 7982.04.4
    Agder32 3754 96664 89412 1372.02.4
    Rogaland59 7608 953115 20822 2411.92.5
    Vestland111 52831 929198 94166 5671.82.1
    Møre og Romsdal34 0944 27559 2117 9061.71.8
    Trøndelag - Trööndelage82 63211 547150 03523 8981.82.1
    Nordland - Nordlánnda49 62232 23785 74857 3361.71.8
    Troms - Romsa - Tromssa34 84144 40267 990104 4122.02.4
    Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku18 40711 49431 38117 5871.71.5
    Svalbard1 1 7183 8546 09712 1963.53.2
    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.
    Explanation of symbols
  • Hotels. Arrivals, guest nights and average number of nights per guest
    Hotels. Arrivals, guest nights and average number of nights per guest
    February 2025
    ArrivalsGuest nightsAverage number of nights per arrival
    NorwayForeign national, totalNorwayForeign national, totalNorwayForeign national, total
    The whole country782 546266 8541 304 205562 6811.72.1
    Østfold16 4194 09224 1046 0231.51.5
    Akershus82 91924 598122 40738 8411.51.6
    Oslo158 04971 043251 894131 0811.61.8
    Innlandet50 21221 13299 53280 9472.03.8
    Buskerud38 09012 93772 48147 7321.93.7
    Vestfold17 4403 27325 6205 2071.51.6
    Telemark17 2212 96628 4649 9841.73.4
    Agder28 8063 97349 1516 5941.71.7
    Rogaland57 0668 449102 15518 9991.82.2
    Vestland106 73928 912175 01052 9601.61.8
    Møre og Romsdal31 3773 94648 2476 1461.51.6
    Trøndelag - Trööndelage80 49211 027136 84922 1411.72.0
    Nordland - Nordlánnda45 65722 87873 64337 6671.61.6
    Troms - Romsa - Tromssa32 84933 39859 77071 7531.82.1
    Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku17 49210 37628 78114 4101.61.4
    Svalbard1 1 7183 8546 09712 1963.53.2
    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.
    Explanation of symbols
  • Commercial accommodation establishments. Guest nights by guests' country of residence, selected countries
    Commercial accommodation establishments. Guest nights by guests' country of residence, selected countries
    February 2025February 2024 - February 2025
    Guest nightsPer cent
    Total2 299 4592.1
    Foreign national, total766 26210.2
    Norway1 533 197-1.5
    Denmark144 406-4.0
    Finland9 37735.0
    Sweden78 6170.0
    Belgium6 913-15.8
    France30 13212.0
    Italy18 4643.6
    Netherlands35 669-4.0
    Poland28 1849.1
    Portugal2 762-13.8
    Russia77738.0
    United Kingdom97 11124.4
    Spain12 7093.2
    Switzerland19 57518.5
    Germany66 235-3.5
    Austria6 86417.3
    India7 20181.3
    Japan2 91339.6
    China28 58587.3
    South Korea1 76319.3
    United States75 82829.0
    Australia10 74040.6
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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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