2025 was another record-setting year for EU tourism, with nearly 3.1 billion nights spent in tourist accommodation establishments across the EU. This reflects a 2.2% increase, or 66.4 million more nights than in 2024.

Nights spent by international guests increased by 3.4% (+49.7 million), while nights spent by domestic guests increased by 1.1% (+16.7 million).

Most overnight stays, 61.7% of the EU total, took place in 4 EU countries: Spain (513.6 million), Italy (476.9 million), France (471.7 million) and Germany (442.1 million). In contrast, the countries with the lowest figures for tourism nights were Luxembourg (3.6 million), Latvia (5.0 million) and Estonia (6.7 million).

This information comes from monthly data on tourism published by Eurostat today. The article presents a handful of findings from the more detailed Statistics Explained article on nights spent at tourist accommodation establishments.

In 2025, the number of tourism nights increased in 24 of the 27 EU countries. The largest increases were in Malta (+10.1% compared with 2024) and Poland (7.2%). In contrast, decreases were recorded in Luxembourg (-2.4%), Romania (-1.7%) and Ireland (-0.4%).

In the fourth quarter of 2025, the number of tourism nights in the EU increased by 3.0% compared with the same quarter of 2024, with increases recorded in 25 EU countries.

The highest increases were registered in Ireland (+12.0%) and Malta (+10.9%), while decreases were registered in Romania (-4.6%) and Luxembourg (-0.4%).