Losinj Island records a million overnight stays

After excellent tourist results in the first seven months of this year, 905,358 overnight stays and 118,878 arrivals, Lošinj island achieved one million overnight stays with today’s visit of 26,000 guests, 12 days earlier than in 2020.

Comparing the data with the same period last year, there were 35% more overnight stays and 41% more arrivals, while there were 73% of tourist overnight stays and 67% of arrivals realized if compared to 2019.

Leading destination in Kvarner

Lošinj has confirmed its position as the leading destination in Kvarner and the 6th leading Croatian destination. In the segment of tourist accommodation, the most popular are camps with a share of 37% and 334,939 overnight stays. This is followed by private accommodation with a share of 20.4% with 185,095 overnight stays. 

Other facilities for accommodation participate with a 12.1% share and realized 109,786 overnight stays, while hotels with the largest increase in overnight stays compared to last year of 66.4% realized 99,625 overnight stays and recorded a share of 11.1%.

The results of overnight stays in private accommodation came closest to the results from 2019 (index 84), followed by overnight stays in other accommodation establishments (index 80), camps with an index of 79.5.

The average length of tourist stays for the first seven months is 7.6 days.

Slovenes as a leading nationality visiting Losinj

Of the total overnight stays, 83% were realized by foreign tourists. All emitting markets are on the rise. Slovenia holds the lead with a share of 34.5% in total overnight stays. They are followed by guests from Germany with a share of 16.2%, Austria with a share of 8.2%, guests from Italy with a share of 5.3%, the Czech Republic with 4.2%, Poland with 2.8%. Other countries participate with 11.8%.

There was a significant number of domestic guests (22,328 arrivals and 153,703 overnight stays) with a share of 17% in the total tourist visit and an increase of 33.5% in overnight stays and 51.5% in arrivals compared to 2020.

In July 2021, there were 619,741 overnight stays and 71,555 arrivals. There were 30.2% more overnight stays and 37.2% arrivals compared to 2020, while compared to 2019, there were 88% of overnight stays and 90% of arrivals realized.

These indicators are the result of additional promotion on the German market where Lošinj intensified activities to strengthen its positioning on leading German portals, emphasizing its advantages. Taking into account the additional safety of tourists in the destination, we provided a drive-in location for quick testing from May 22 with additional locations in accordance with the current epidemiological situation, which is crucial for the successful continuation of the tourist year. There will be no larger events, instead, we have smaller promenade events. 

Ana Kučić, president of the Tourist Board of Mali Lošinj

Source: Otoci.net