Kittilä
Accommodation and Travel Stats
August 2020
Kittilä: Tourism in a nutshell
22,300
20,900
1,300
12,700
12,000
740
695,000
19
1,000
3,500
11 %
12.7 °C
37 mm
Key indicators
Bed nights
Arrivals
Sales
Travel key indicators: the darker the square the larger the value.
Dark squares in the middle (vertically) mean the main season is in the summer. Dark squares on the top and the bottom mean the main season is in the winter. Gradually darkening squares from left to right signify growth over the years.
It is important to notice that the largest values (darkest squares) are not necessarily during the same months between different stats as this might reveal interesting details about travel and accommodation trends.
Temperature
Rainfall
22,300 registered bed nights (July)
In July 2020, 22,300 bed nights were recorded in Kittilä (-20.6 %), of which 20,900 nights were spent by domestic visitors and 1,300 nights by foreigners. Domestic bed nights decreased six percent and foreign bed nights decreased 77 percent. In total, bed nights decreased 21 percent from last year's July.
Most foreign bed nights were recorded for travelers from Norway (820 nights).
19,100 nights (-9.5 %) were spend by leisure visitors and 3,200 nights (-54.3 %) by business visitors.
Between January and July, 106,000 bed nights (-36.3 %) were recorded for domestic visitors and 131,000 (-21.8 %) for foreigners in Kittilä, in total 237,000 (-29.0 %) nights.
Registered bed nights statistics include stats for registered accommodations: hotels, motels, guest houses, hostels, holiday villages and campsites. Establishments with fewer than 20 beds or caravan lots with an electrical connection point are excluded.
Registered bed nights
Bed nights by country of arrival
12,700 tourists arrived to accommodation (July)
Arrivals to registered accommodation decreased 18 percent compared to earlier year. Of all arrivals, 94.2 percent were domestic, and 5.8 percent were from foreign countries.
During July, domestic visitors stayed in registered accommodation in Kittilä on average 1.7 nights (-0.29) and foreigners 1.8 nights (+0.55).
1,600 international congress guests in 2019
The number of international congress quests increased 750 percent from the previous year.
There was a total of 3.0 congresses organized (+1.0) in 2019.
890 air travelers
The airport received a total of 890 passengers, which means air passenger arrivals decreased 52 percent.
Of local passengers, 0.0 % arrived from abroad, thus the share of domestic passengers was 100.0 %.
In addition, there were 810 passengers departing the airport (-60.9 %), therefore the total number of trips via the airport was 1,700 (-56.8 %).
Arriving passengers (excl. transfers)
Arriving passengers from
Passengers on transfers from
Departing passengers to
Ferry arrivals from different harbors
International = International cruise ships
Accommodation sales 1.3 million euro (July)
Total accommodation sales in July were 1.3 million euro (+122,000). The share of Airbnb and HomeAway was 46.9 percent. Therefore, registered accommodation sales were 695,000 euro (-117,000) and non-registered sales 613,000 euro (+239,000).
Total January-July sales were 20.9 million euro and they decreased 1.8 million euro from the previous year.
Average prices
| July 2020 Amount |
Change |
jan-July 2020
Amount |
Change | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adr (Non-Registered) | 145 € | 23.8 % | 154 € | -0.5 % |
| Revpar (Non-Registered) | 72 € | 8.2 % | 101 € | 4.0 % |
| Adr (Registered) | 69 € | 5.4 % | 137 € | 9.1 % |
| Bed Night (Registered) | 31 € | 7.8 % | 62 € | 10.7 % |
| Revpar (Registered) | 21 € | 3.4 % | 72 € | 4.3 % |
Tax free sales -10.9 % (January)
Tax free sales decreased 11 percent from the previous year.
(Russians +4.6 %, Chinese -32.8 %, Japanese -50.6 %)
Registered accommodation sales
Average registered room price (ADR)
Capacity & Utilization (July)
Registered Accommodation
19 accommodation establishments (+1)
1,000 rooms (-200)
3,500 beds (-510)
Room utilization 31.0 % (-0.6)
Unsold rooms 720
Airbnb and HomeAway
380 accommodation establishments (+107)
380 apartments (+111)
800 rooms (+182)
Apartment utilization 49.9 % (-7.2)
Unsold apartments 189
Registered room utilization for establishments
Website's user sessions by language
Hotel customer satisfaction
Average customer satisfaction score on Booking.com given by hotel customers in August was 7.14/10.
Hotel customer satisfaction by nationalities
Sources: Airdna, Booking.Com, Business Finland, Finavia, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Global Blue, Statistics Finland, Tak Research
Levin Matkailu Oy
Myllyjoentie 2, 99130 Sirkka
(016) 639 3300, levi@levi.fi, levi.fi
