New record year for hotels in 1997

The number of overnight stays at Norwegian hotels increased three per cent in 1997, compared with 1996. In 1997, hotels had 15.7 million overnight stays, compared to 15.3 million in 1996. Business from the domestic market increased by 419,000 overnight stays in 1997, a four per cent increase. Foreign business declined slightly, by 11,000 overnight stays.

In Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim and Stavanger, overnight stays in 1997 increased by 328,000 compared to 1996. The overall increase for Norway was 408,000 overnight stays. This means that the largest cities accounted for more than 80 per cent of the increase in overall business.

Increase in business stays

In 1997, the number of overnight stays by businesspeople increased by 390,000, from 4.3 million in 1996 to 4.7 million in 1997. Course and congress overnight stays increased by 37,000, while holiday and weekend overnight stays on the other hand declined by 20,000.

New Statistics

Hotel statistics, December 1997.
Statistics are published every month in the Weekly Bulletin of Statistics. For more information, contact: 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 tourism in general.

Weekly Bulletin issue no. 6, 1998

Hotel statistics, December 1997:

New record year for hotels in 1997

New Statistics

Hotel statistics, December 1997.Statistics are published every month in the Weekly Bulletin of Statistics. For more information, contact: 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 tourism in general.

Hotel statistics, December 1997.
Statistics are published every month in the Weekly Bulletin of Statistics. For more information, contact: 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 tourism in general.