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MAP: Average length of stay – % variation 2001-2010 The average length of stay in the Alps has generally decreased between 2001 and 2010 (-11.8%). The holiday duration in 2001 amounted to almost 4 days (3.9), while in 2010 it reached 3.5 days. The decrease appears to be very homogeneous and on national scale it ranges from -20% in Slovenia to -11% in Italy. The NUTS2 regions showing higher decreases are Kärnten (-19%) and Vorarlberg (-17%) in Austria. Nevertheless, there are a few municipalities located in the Eastern or Western part of the Alpine area showing positive variations, mainly due to the fact that they entered the tourism business after 2001.
Figure 25: Average length of stay – % variation 2001-2010, ALS = overnights/arrivals
Explanatory notes on data analysis are available on the Alpine Convention’s web site: notes.rsa4.alpconv.org.
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Understanding of para-hotellerie in the Alpine Countries Country
Understanding para-hotellerie
Comments
Austria
• commercial holiday dwellings • health resorts and recreation facilities (of social partners, private and public) • youth hotels • camping • operated mountain shelters • other accommodation establishments (huts, student dormitories if they are rented during summer holidays as hotels a.s.o.) • all forms of private accommodations (holiday dwellings, private rooms on farms and not on farms)
France
Regarding non-hotel accommodation, one cannot find an official definition in France from the INSEE (National Institute for Statistics). The definition depends on the related services (and subsequently from the related tax regimes): tourist residences, guest houses and holiday villages (as well as campsites, but they are not included in the field here).
Villa rentals in France do not belong to this category because they have no related services and they can be considered as simple house rentals.
Germany
No direct differentiation of hotels and para-hotellerie.
Commercial accommodations with at least 10 beds.
Italy
Complementary accommodation facilities include: • camping • holiday villages • mixed formulas of camping and holiday villages • houses for rent to be managed in entrepreneurial form • agro-tourism • holiday houses • youth hostels • mountain shelters • “other (not classified) accommodation facilities” (ISTAT, www.istat.it/it/archivio/37399)
Different classifications of accommodation facilities across the Alpine region
Liechtenstein Include: • dormitories • youth hostels • mountain huts Slovenia
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campings holiday dwellings tourist farms with accommodation private accommodations – rented rooms, dwellings mountain huts company vacation facilities youth hostels vacation facilities for youth other accommodation facilities temporary accommodation facilities marinas
For private accommodations, tourist farms with accommodation and company vacation facilities, monthly data does not cover establishments with less than 10 permanent beds. Annual data also includes units that have less than 10 permanent beds; therefore, the sum of monthly data on tourist traffic does not correspond to its annual figure.