“The Tourism Indicator predicts that around 584.5 thousand overnight stays will have been recorded in July in the Autonomous Region of the Azores in all tourist accommodation establishments (hotels, local accommodation and rural tourism)”, reads a publication by SREA, published on its website.

According to the Regional Statistics Service, “the value of this estimate of overnight stays is 6.2% higher when compared to the final value for the same month (550.1 thousand)”.

The Tourism Indicator report also highlights the number of passengers arriving at airports in the Azores in July, originating from abroad and within the national territory (excluding flights between islands in the archipelago).

According to data previously revealed by SREA, passengers arriving on international flights (58,264) increased by 25.2%, while travellers originating from the mainland and Madeira (111,488) increased by 6.7%.

According to the SREA, the Tourism Indicator (TI) “aims to estimate the general evolution of economic activity in the tourism sector in the Autonomous Region of the Azores”.

“The TI-Açores is the result of adding together the estimates of overnight stays recorded in the three types of tourist accommodation and is released approximately three weeks before the publication of the Tourism Activity report”, the publication reads.

The estimate of overnight stays in the hotel industry as a whole, rural tourism and local accommodation “uses the values ​​recorded in the Survey on Guest Stays in Hotels and other Accommodation” and the “extrapolation of trends according to the expected response rate in each case”, it adds.