The number of visitors and overnight stays in December tripled compared to the same month in 2020.

The first total tourism results for 2021 have confirmed the positive evolution of the sector in Galicia over the past year, with a notable growth compared to 2020, which has allowed the community to recover a large part of the visitor and overnight stay figures lost as a result of the covid pandemic.

The latest study of the hotel tourism situation made public by the National Institute of Statistics shows that last month just over 200,000 travellers passed through Galician hotels, which is almost four times more than the 53,096 travellers registered in December 2020 and is already very close to the 240,000 of the same month in 2019. These figures also have a direct translation in the number of overnight stays, which grew from 124,000 in December 2020 to 390,000 last month, also significantly reducing the difference with the 460,000 in December 2019.

From the Xunta de Galicia they emphasise that the December data have contributed to Galicia having exceeded by 90%, with a total of 3,134,000 visitors in 2021, the figure recorded in 2020, “only behind the Balearic Islands in the case of the volume of travellers and only behind the Balearic Islands and Catalonia in the case of tourism demand”. Likewise, the regional authorities point out that in relative terms Galicia has positioned itself as the second best community in terms of the evolution of the hotel figures for travellers and overnight stays with respect to 2019, having recovered 70% of the figures for that year, 22 points more than the national average. Moreover, according to the Xunta’s calculations, if it add to these figures the available data (from January to November 2021) of the extra-hotel establishments, Galicia added last year more than 4.1 million registered visitors and almost 9 million overnight stays.

By provinces, A Coruña led the ranking of visitors staying in hotels in Galicia last December with 84,033, followed by Pontevedra with 75,452, Ourense with 21,025 and Lugo with 20,125. In addition, Vigo made a niche in the state ranking of tourist spots by number of visitors last month by registering a total of 38,145 travellers staying in its hotels and just over 74,000 overnight stays. The Rías Baixas as a whole (including both the territory of Pontevedra and A Coruña) did the same in the state ranking of tourist areas, with 75,618 visitors and almost 150,000 overnight stays.

In the annual total for 2021, the province of A Coruña topped the ranking with 1.3 million visitors, ahead of Pontevedra (1,044,000), Lugo (477,832) and Ourense (265,033). In terms of the number of overnight stays in hotels, A Coruña accounted for almost 2.7 million, Pontevedra 2.5 million, Lugo just over 800,000 and Ourense almost half a million.

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