Guest nights booked online show solid growth in Q1 2025

In the first quarter of 2025, guests spent 129.6 million nights in short-term rental accommodation in the EU, booked via Airbnb, Booking or Expedia. 2025 appears promising, as the total number of guest nights increased by 4.8% compared with 2024 and by as much as 34.5% compared with 2023. Nights spent in short-stay accommodation increased by 16.3% in January 2025 and 11.6% in February compared with the same months of 2024. On the other hand, data show an 8.6% decrease in March this year compared with March 2024, mostly due to the Easter holidays, which took place in April this year and March last year. Strong results in the first 2 months helped offset the seasonal decline observed in March. Source dataset: tour_ce_omr This information comes from monthly data on short-stay accommodation offered via online platforms. Today, Eurostat published the data for the first quarter of 2025 at the national level and the fourth quarter of 2024 at the regional level. This news article presents several highlights from the more detailed Statistics Explained article. For a more in-depth analysis, please also refer to the Statistics Explained article with annual data. Top destination in the autumn of 2024: Andalucía The most popular regions for short-term rental accommodation booked via online platforms in the last quarter of 2024 were Andalucía (8.7 million nights) and Canarias (7.6 million) in Spain and Île-de-France in France (7.2 million). In the same quarter, among the top 20 regions, 5 were located in Spain and another 5 in Italy, 4 were in France, 2 in Portugal, and 1 region each in Hungary, Poland, Greece and Austria. Source dataset: tour_ce_omn12