Guests grow by 3% and overnight stays by 2.2% to 32.5 and 82.1 million in 2025

Tourist accommodation registered 32.5 million guests and 82.1 million overnight stays in 2025, 3.0% and 2.2% more compared to 2024, with residents’ overnight stays accelerating, reducing dependence on external markets.

According to preliminary data on tourism activity released by the National Statistics Institute (INE), last year the sector’s total income (resulting from all hotel activity) exceeded, for the first time, 7,000 million euros, reaching 7,200 million (+7.2% compared to 2024).

As he highlights, “since 2015, only in the period between 2020 and 2022, strongly marked by the covid-19 pandemic, were levels of dependence on external markets lower than those recorded in 2025”.

Last year, the United Kingdom remained the main source market, representing 17.7% of non-resident overnight stays, despite a decrease of 1.5%.

This was followed by the German (11.3% of the total), North American (9.6% of the total), Spanish (9.1% of the total) and French (7.4% of the total) markets. Still among the main markets, the Canadian (+5.8%) and North American (+4.9%) stood out for the biggest growth, while the French and Spanish markets recorded the biggest reductions (-7.0% and -5.2%, respectively).

In 2025, all regions increased overnight stays, with the biggest increases occurring in Alentejo (+6.3%), the Setúbal Peninsula (+4.7%) and the North (+4.5%).

Algarve was the region that concentrated the most overnight stays in 2025

O Algarve accounted for 25.4% of total overnight stays in 2025followed by Greater Lisbon (23.9% of the total) and the North (18.0%).

The North was the main destination for residents (21.7% of resident overnight stays), followed by the Algarve (19.2% of the total).

Non-resident overnight stays were essentially concentrated in the Algarve (28.1% of total non-resident overnight stays) and Greater Lisbon (28.0% of the total). In the Center and Alentejo, overnight stays from residents predominated (68.2% and 66.8%, respectively), while in the remaining regions, overnight stays from non-residents were dominant.

According to , the Autonomous Region of Madeira and Greater Lisbon were the most dependent on external markets, which represented 82.5% and 81.4% of total overnight stays in 2025, respectively.

Considering only the month of December 2025, the tourist accommodation sector registered 1.9 million guests (+4.4%) and 4.3 million overnight stays (+3.0%). These results translated into 335.9 million euros in total income and 236.0 million euros in income from accommodation (+6.6% and +5.7%, respectively).

The increase in overnight stays resulted from positive contributions both from residents, whose overnight stays rose by 6.0% (+0.8% in November) to 1.7 million, and from non-residents, who increased by 1.1% (after +0.6% in November) to 2.6 million.

Among the 10 main issuing markets in December, the Canadian one stood out again with the biggest growth (+10.3%), while the French one registered the biggest decrease (-11.0%).

In the same month, the average income per available room (RevPAR) stood at 38.9 euros (+1.2%) and the average income per occupied room (ADR) reached 99.7 euros (+2.3%).

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