EU tourism reached 95% of pre-lockdown level in 2022

Data published on March 15 by Eurostat, the European Commission’s statistics agency, show tourism in the European Union (EU) to have rebounded to close to 2019 levels but with room to grow for international travel. Measured in number of nights spent in tourism accommodation, the EU’s 27 member-states in 2022 recorded 95% of  2019’s level and a 49% increase on 2022. Of the 2.73 billion nights  spent in tourism accommodation in 2022, 472 million were recorded in the fourth quarter, 2% less than in the same period in 2019. Domestic tourism had exceeded 2019 levels, the data show, with 1.53