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Weekly Bulletin Is. 32, 1996

Upswing for hotels in June


After sliding for several months in 1996, occupancy at Norwegian hotels increased in June. Total occupancy increased from 1.63 million bookings in June 1995 to 1.75 million in June 1996, an increase of nearly eight percent.

The upswing applied to stays by both Norwegian and foreign guests. Compared to the same month last year, the number of reservations by Norwegians increased nine percent from 890,000 to 973,000, while the number of foreign bookings increased five percent to 780,000.

New Statistics

Hotel statistics, June 1996.
Statistics are published every month in the Weekly Bulletin of Statistics. More information: Arild Krogh, tel. +47 62 88 54 23, e-mail: akr@ssb.no or Tom Granseth, tel. +47 62 88 54 06, e-mail: tog@ssb.no on travel in general.

Weekly Bulletin Is. 32, 1996