{"id":913541,"date":"2026-10-02T14:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T14:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/913541\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T14:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T14:34:14","slug":"tourism-nights-booked-online-up-5-3-in-q2-2026-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/913541\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism nights booked online up 5.3% in Q2 2026 – News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Between April and June 2026, tourists spent 258.8 million nights<\/a> in EU<\/a> short-term rental accommodation<\/a> booked through Airbnb, Booking or Expedia. The total number of guest nights in the second quarter of 2026 increased by 5.3% (+13.1 million) compared with the same quarter of 2025 and by 23.9% (+50.0 million) compared with the same quarter of 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This information comes from monthly data on short-stay accommodation offered via online platforms<\/a>. Today, Eurostat published the data for the second quarter of 2026 at national level and for the first quarter of 2026 at regional level.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This news article presents several highlights from the more detailed Statistics Explained article<\/a>. For a more in-depth analysis of annual indicators, please also refer to the Statistics Explained article with annual data<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Guest<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0Source dataset: tour_ce_omr<\/a><\/p>\n

Sea and mountains: Canarias and Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes lead in Q1 2026<\/p>\n

The most popular regions for short-term rental accommodation booked via online platforms in the first quarter of 2026 were Canarias in Spain and Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes in France (8.8 million nights each) and Andalucia in Spain (8.3 million nights).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Among the 10 most popular regions in the first quarter of the year, 5 were in Spain, 3 in France and 2 in Italy.<\/p>\n

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