Description
Tourism density is defined as the total number of nights spent over a year in a tourist destination (country or region) per square kilometre of land of the tourist destination. Very high values may signal possible crowding and/or environmental pressures. This descriptor is provided in the EU Tourism Dashboard as complementary information to characterize tourism demand. UNIT OF MEASURE: Nights spent per km2. RESOLUTION: NUTS0, NUTS2, NUTS3. COMPLETENESS: 100%. METHODOLOGY: The indicator is obtained dividing the nights spent by the total area of the tourism destination. DATA SOURCES: Nights spent at tourist accommodation establishments by NUTS 2 regions (tour_occ_nin2) [ESTAT].
Contact
Contributors
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- Filipe Batista
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0000-0002-8752-6464
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- Ricardo Barranco
How to cite
Batista, Filipe; Ricardo Barranco (2022): UDP - Tourism density. European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/8dd1d6ec-c268-46b1-9d92-2c762e835652
Keywords
Europe destination area nights spent tourism density tourism
Data access
Reference Eurostat metadata
Geographic areas
Switzerland European Union Iceland Norway
Temporal coverage
| From date | To date |
|---|---|
| 2019-01-01 | 2021-12-31 |
Additional information
- Published by
- European Commission, Joint Research Centre
- Created date
- 2022-10-22
- Modified date
- 2024-01-17
- Issued date
- 2022-09-22
- Landing page
- https://tourism-dashboard.ec.europa.eu/
- Language(s)
- English
- Data theme(s)
- Economy and finance
- Update frequency
- annual
- Identifier
- http://data.europa.eu/89h/8dd1d6ec-c268-46b1-9d92-2c762e835652
- Popularity
- 26 Apr 2024: 1 visits