Overnight stays at hotels in Iceland in November were nearly 384,000 or approximately 6.4% more than in 2023 when they were 361,000. Overnight stays increased in all regions with the greatest increase occurring in the North region (17.4%) and West and Westfjords region (10.9%). Roughly 9.2% increase was in the South region and approximately 6.9% in the Southwest. Lastly, overnight stays increased by 4.4% in the East region and by 4.1% in the Capital region.
Supply of hotel bedrooms increased by 1.2% in November compared with the same time in 2023. The greatest increase was in the West and Westfjords region, or 11%, while the second most was in the South (5.7%). In the Capital region and the Southwest there were little changes, but significant declines were in the East (-29.0%) and to a lesser extent in the North (-7.0%).
Occupancy rates increased in all regions and by 3.1 percentage points overall in the country. Rates rose most in the East, or by 11.6 percentage points, and then in the Southwest and North by 6.0 and 5.8 percentage points, respectively. In other regions the changes were less significant. The Capital region experienced 1.3 percentage points increase in occupancy rates, the South 2.0 percentage points and the West and Westfjords 1.4 percentage points.
All accommodations
When all accommodations were considered the total number of registered overnight stays in November were roughly 548,000. This was an increase of 6.4% compared with the same month in 2023 when the total was roughly 515,000. The majority of overnight stays was registered in hotels and guesthouses or roughly 448,000 (384,000 in hotels and 64,000 in guesthouses). The rest, or 100,000, was attributable to other types of accommodation (camping sites, cottages, etc.). In the first 11 months of the year the total accumulated overnight stays were nearly 9.1 million which was 0.2% lower than in the same months of 2023.
Revision of data categorisation by nationality
Data on overnight stays by nationality is currently undergoing revisions. While this analysis is in process no data on the number of overnight stays by nationality will be published. Readers should note however that this revision does not affect the total number of overnight stays (by type of accommodation or region) but rather only the breakdown by nationality.
Furthermore, data on overnight stays by nationality is used as input in estimating the number of unlisted overnight stays. For that reason, it is also not possible to publish results on the number of unlisted overnight stays for the month of November 2024.
About the data
All numbers for 2024 are preliminary except data on overnight stays at hotels which are preliminary for November 2024.