Leading European tourism cities by bed nights 2022

The total number of bed nights in popular European city destinations increased significantly in 2022 over the previous year, following a sharp drop with the onset of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Overall, London topped the ranking both before and after the impact of the health crisis, with roughly 59.1 million bed nights in 2022. While this figure more than doubled compared to 2021, it remained below pre-pandemic levels. Meanwhile, the number of international tourist visits to London totaled around 16 million in 2022.

Tourism in London

With the increase in inbound tourism arrivals and nights, spending by international visitors in London rebounded in 2022. Even in this case, however, the expenditure did not catch up with pre-pandemic figures yet, amounting to approximately 14 billion British pounds in 2022. That year, the direct contribution of travel and tourism to GDP in London was expected to reach nearly 11 billion British pounds.

Leading city tourism destinations in Europe from 2019 to 2022, by number of bed nights (in millions)

Characteristic	2019	2020	2021	2022
London¹	85.1	20.77	25.54	59.13
Paris¹	52.45	14.13	20.47	50.13
Istanbul	23.93	9.89	18.57	29.63
Berlin	34.12	12.28	13.98	26.53
Rome¹	29.07	5.35	5.03	20.32
Barcelona¹	19.85	3.92	6.1	19.73
Amsterdam¹	18.38	5.8	5.78	18.25
Madrid¹	20.68	5.05	10.93	17.66
Munich¹	18.29	7.03	7.95	16.02
Hamburg	15.43	6.88	7.5	14.71
Stockholm¹	15.3	6.9	9.23	14.34
Vienna¹	18.64	4.93	5.41	13.9
Lisbon²	13.82	-	5.19	13.32
Prague	18.48	4.9	5.26	13.22
Milan²	-	3.52	5.26	11.14

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Release date

July 2023

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Region

Europe

Survey time period

2019 to 2022

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figures include domestic and international bed nights in all paid forms of accommodation establishments

Supplementary notes

¹ According to the source, these cities have different definitions and data rectifications.

² 2019 data for Milan and 2020 data for Lisbon were not available.

The ranking is from City Destinations Alliance's CityDNA Benchmarking Report based on total bed nights from Europe's main source markets (United States, Germany, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Spain, Russia, China, and Japan).

Cities are ranked according to the number of bed nights recorded in 2022. Figures have been rounded. Data prior to 2022 were previously published by the source.

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