Oulu
Accommodation and Travel Stats

February 2020

Oulu: Tourism in a nutshell

Total
icon: new 65,000
8 %
Registered Accommodation
icon: star 51,500
0 %
icon: finland 44,300
1 %
icon: foreign 7,200
5 %
Non-registered Accommodation
icon: star 13,500
52 %
Total
icon: new 38,600
1 %
Registered Accommodation
icon: star 32,200
8 %
icon: finland 28,200
7 %
icon: foreign 4,000
14 %
Non-registered Accommodation
icon: star 6,400
52 %
Total
icon: new 3.6 mill. €
2 %
Registered Accommodation
icon: star 3.3 mill. €
2 %
Average prices:
Night
64.70 €
0.50 €
Room
113.20 €
10.50 €
RevPAR
87.40 €
14.80 €
Non-registered Accommodation
icon: star 253,000 €
2 %
Average prices:
Adr
77.20 €
3.10 €
RevPAR
47.60 €
4.40 €
Registered Accommodation
icon: establishment 11
15 %
icon: room 1,300
14 %
icon: bed 2,700
14 %
Non-registered Accommodation
icon: establishment 310
22 %
icon: room 430
26 %
Registered Accommodation
icon: room 77 %
9 %
icon: bed 62 %
11 %
Non-registered Accommodation
icon: entire place 62 %
14 %
Registered Accommodation
icon: star 1.6
9 %
icon: finland 1.6
9 %
icon: foreign 1.8
10 %

Paid bed nights

51,500 registered bed nights

In February 2020, 51,500 registered bed nights were recorded in Oulu (+0.3 %), of which 44,300 nights were spent by domestic visitors and 7,200 nights by foreigners. Registered domestic bed nights increased one percent and registered foreign bed nights decreased five percent. In total, registered bed nights increased less than one percent from last year's February.

26,300 nights (-5.2 %) were spend by leisure visitors and 25,200 nights (+6.9 %) by business visitors.

Between January and February, 80,900 registered bed nights (+5.2 %) were recorded for domestic visitors and 17,100 (-1.5 %) for foreigners in Oulu, in total 98,000 (+4.0 %) registered nights.

Registered bed nights

Registered bed nights by country of arrival

Bed nights target market monitoring

Market share 2.8 percent

Total of 1.9 million registered bed nights (+7.0 %) were recorded in the whole country, of which 1.2 million nights (+10.2 %) were spent by domestic visitors and 611,000 nights (+1.2 %) by foreigners.

The market share of Oulu out of total registered bed nights was 2.8 % (-0.2 percentage points), out of domestic bed nights 3.6 % and foreign bed nights 1.2 %.

Comparison of registered bed nights between regions

Forecast of paid bed nights

Length of stay increased nine percent in registered accommodation

Length of stay in registered accommodation increased nine percent compared to earlier year. In Oulu, length of stay in February was on average 1.6 nights and in Finland 2.0 nights (+2.0 %).

During February, domestic visitors stayed in registered accommodation in Oulu on average 1.6 nights (+5.7 %) and foreigners 1.8 nights (+5.6 %).

32,200 tourists arrived to registered accommodation

Arrivals to registered accommodation decreased eight percent compared to earlier year. Of all registered arrivals, 87.6 percent were domestic, and 12.4 percent were from foreign countries.

During February, domestic visitors stayed in registered accommodation in Oulu on average 1.6 nights (+0.13) and foreigners 1.8 nights (+0.17).

38,800 air travelers

The airport received a total of 38,800 passengers, which means air passenger arrivals decreased eight percent.

Of local passengers, 7.7 % arrived from abroad, thus the share of domestic passengers was 92.3 %.

In addition, there were 38,800 passengers departing the airport (-8.8 %), therefore the total number of trips via the airport was 77,600 (-8.4 %).

Arriving passengers (excl. transfers)

Arriving passengers from

Passengers on transfers from

Departing passengers to

Ferry arrivals from different harbors

Accommodation sales 3.6 million euro

Total accommodation sales in February were 3.6 million euro (+69,500). The share of Airbnb and Vrbo was 7.0 percent. Therefore, registered accommodation sales were 3.3 million euro (-15,400) and non-registered sales 253,000 euro (+84,900).

Total January-February sales were 6.6 million euro and they increased 311,000 euro from the previous year.

Average prices

= change at least 10 %
February 2020
Amount
Change jan-February 2020
Amount
Change
Adr (Registered) 113 € 10.2 % 108 € 10.3 %
Revpar (Registered) 87 € 20.3 % 79 € 26.7 %
Adr (Non-Registered) 77 € -3.8 % 80 € 0.6 %
Bed Night (Registered) 65 € -0.8 % 63 € -1.1 %
Revpar (Non-Registered) 48 € 10.1 % 45 € 9.4 %

Total accommodation sales

Registered accommodation sales

Average registered room price (ADR)

Capacity & Utilization

Registered Accommodation

11 accommodation establishments (-2)
1,300 rooms (-210)
2,700 beds (-450)

Room utilization 77.2 % (+6.5)
Unsold rooms 300
Bed utilization 61.8 % (+6.3)

Airbnb and Vrbo

310 accommodation establishments (+55)
260 apartments (+55)
430 rooms (+89)

Apartment utilization 61.7 % (+7.8)
Unsold apartments 101

Registered room utilization for establishments

Website's user sessions by language

Global Google searches for "oulu + keyword"

Google searches for "oulu" by search region

The number of Sustainable Travel Finland -companies in Oulu is 7*

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

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Sources: Airdna, Business Finland, Finavia, Statistics Finland, Visitory Research Team

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