Tourism agency hails record visitor numbers
Hungary has seen the highest ever visitor numbers so far this year; in the first 200 days of the year the number of tourists was up by nearly 12 percent and the number of guest nights was up by 8 percent compared with last year, the Hungarian Tourism Agency (MTU) said on Thursday.
Up to the middle of the summer season over 8.8 million guests spent a total of 21.3 million nights at accommodations across the country, the MTU said.
Fully 37 percent, or 8 million of guest nights were spent in Budapest, 13 percent on top of last year, including 6.7 million nights spent by foreign tourists, an increase of nearly 15 percent from 2023, the agency said.
It added that 86 percent of Budapest’s guests were foreigners, while 70 percent of the hotel bookings outside the capital had been made by domestic tourists. The Lake Balaton area has remained the most frequented resort outside Budapest, the agency said.
