There were 236,700 tourist accommodation facilities in Croatia at the end of August, which is an increase of 15,700 or 7.1 percent on the same period last year, and most of them were categorised as non-commercial or household facilities, while the number of hotels rose by 28 to 1,199.
The data from the eVisitor tourist registration application indicates that there were 1.7 million beds in Croatia as of 31 August, which is 5 percent or 93,000 more on the year. Most of these, or 634,000, were in household facilities, representing a share of 37.3 percent of all beds, compared to 37 percent at the same time in 2018.
The largest increase in the number of beds was recorded in non-commercial or household facilities. There were 113,000 facilities in this category with 502,000 beds, which is an increase of 8.6 percent or about 10,000 facilities and an increase of 8.1 percent or 38,000 beds year on year.
The share of hotel beds falls slightly to 10.4 percent
Croatia had 1,199 hotels with 177,400 beds at the end of August, which is an increase of 3.2 percent or 38 more hotels than in August last year, while the number of beds rose by 6,900 or 4 percent year on year. However, the share of hotel beds fell to 10.4 percent from 10.5 percent at the end of August last year.
This year there were three more campsites, bringing their number to 502 with a total of almost 247,400 beds or 2,200 beds more than last year, up 1 percent year on year. The share of camp beds was 14.5 percent compared to 15.1 percent last year.