According to the Tourism Monitor of the Portuguese Hoteliers’ Association (AHP), in November “the main hotel indexes grew once more”, with the “surprise” being the increase in visitors’ average stay.
The growth in most indexes seen in the first 11 months of 2015 prompts the AHP to estimate that the year ended “with better results in hotel performance than in 2014,” said the association’s executive president Cristina Siza Vieira. However, she stressed that this development “was not sufficient to reverse the trend” that meant visitors’ average stay for the whole 11 months was down on the year.
“We must continue to work to increase that time that tourists stay in Portuguese hotels, which in terms of the national average is less than two nights,” she said.
According to the AHP report, in November the occupation rate per room was up 1.74 percentage points on the same month a year earlier to 52.15 percent. All categories except three-star hotels enjoyed increases.