A dataset with monthly data by visitors’ country of residence and tourist region can be found here:

Existing situation and objectives
In 2020, the European Commission signed a data sharing agreement with four platforms - Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia Group and Tripadvisor. This allows the statistical office of the European Union (Eurostat), to publish data on short-term accommodation offered through these four platforms.
This is a publication of the results for Switzerland, which benefits from this agreement and is intended to provide users with an overview of the rentals yet does not claim to present rentals in entirety and cannot ensure that the same concepts have been applied as for tourist accommodation statistics.
Limitations
- The results only refer to accommodation offered via these four platforms. Data for accommodation that is not offered via these platforms is not presented in these results. Therefore, no conclusions can be made about this tourism accommodation category in entirety.
- Additional problems regarding coverage of the statistical population under consideration may also arise due to differences in the categories of accommodation used in tourism statistics and those on these platforms. The results cannot be aggregated with other tourism statistics (e.g., hotel and supplementary accommodation statistics) due to possible overlapping.
- Solely the aggregated data for all four platforms is presented, whereas data on the individual platforms is not presented.
Publication by Eurostat
Eurostat receives the data from the platforms on a quarterly basis and publishes them on:
Collaborative economy platforms - Experimental statistics
Additional analyses
National statistics offices may publish certain additional details to address specific national needs. In Switzerland’s case, the Federal Statistical Office (FSO) is authorised to publish the data at tourist region level. The FSO receives the results of the four platforms from Eurostat, which have already been aggregated, for this purpose. The results presented below are based entirely on the data provided by Eurostat, and the FSO cannot verify or guarantee the quality of the data.
Quarter |
Overnight stays |
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2019 |
% Swiss visitors |
2020 |
% Swiss visitors |
2021 |
% Swiss visitors |
|
1st quarter |
1 429 724 |
36.3 |
1 522 852 |
38.5 |
1 385 644 |
64.6 |
2nd quarter |
1 438 503 |
19.5 |
564 993 |
72.1 |
1 310 858 |
69.9 |
3rd quarter |
2 261 575 |
19.7 |
2 054 996 |
57.5 |
2 282 936 |
48.4 |
4th quarter |
1 253 594 |
28.2 |
1 097 240 |
66.9 |
1 354 364 |
49.0 |
TOTAL |
6 383 396 |
25.0 |
5 240 081 |
55.5 |
6 333 802 |
56.5 |
Vistors’ country of residence |
Overnight stays |
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---|---|---|---|---|---|
1st quarter |
2nd quarter |
3rd quarter |
4th quarter |
TOTAL |
|
TOTAL |
1 385 644 |
1 310 858 |
2 282 936 |
1 354 364 |
6 333 802 |
Switzerland |
895 513 |
915 757 |
1 104 144 |
663 770 |
3 579 184 |
Total foreigners |
490 131 |
395 101 |
1 178 792 |
690 594 |
2 754 618 |
Europe (excl. Switzerland) |
438 611 |
335 070 |
923 537 |
491 327 |
2 188 545 |
Germany |
115 254 |
144 745 |
325 497 |
146 037 |
731 533 |
France |
98 947 |
66 812 |
154 799 |
94 805 |
415 363 |
Netherlands |
9 210 |
7 823 |
113 298 |
32 116 |
162 447 |
United Kingdom |
23 791 |
18 378 |
50 736 |
46 308 |
139 213 |
Italy |
17 914 |
17 644 |
45 181 |
32 822 |
113 561 |
Poland |
75 490 |
6 276 |
18 091 |
8 535 |
108 392 |
America |
35 269 |
40 911 |
132 698 |
111 486 |
320 364 |
Asia |
10 642 |
12 415 |
56 438 |
61 310 |
140 805 |
Oceania |
3 073 |
2 532 |
3 768 |
5 214 |
14 587 |
Africa |
2 077 |
1 727 |
4 976 |
4 250 |
13 030 |
Unknown |
459 |
2 446 |
57 375 |
17 007 |
77 287 |
Tourist region |
Overnight stays |
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---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1st quarter |
2nd quarter |
3rd quarter |
4th quarter |
TOTAL |
% Swiss visitors |
|
TOTAL |
1 385 644 |
1 310 858 |
2 282 936 |
1 354 364 |
6 333 802 |
56.5 |
Graubünden |
296 104 |
110 207 |
252 790 |
145 928 |
805 029 |
67.5 |
Eastern Switzerland |
47 585 |
74 357 |
125 988 |
60 086 |
308 016 |
55.3 |
Zurich Region |
80 932 |
104 043 |
173 483 |
137 528 |
495 986 |
33.5 |
Lucerne / Lake Lucerne |
53 316 |
75 039 |
130 888 |
75 026 |
334 269 |
48.7 |
Basel Region |
14 923 |
20 126 |
33 072 |
28 160 |
96 281 |
40.6 |
Bern Region |
157 672 |
179 798 |
381 627 |
199 720 |
918 817 |
47.4 |
Jura & Three-Lakes |
19 840 |
41 495 |
50 363 |
27 486 |
139 184 |
67.5 |
Vaud |
103 933 |
123 811 |
197 391 |
129 357 |
554 492 |
49.2 |
Geneva |
33 304 |
41 558 |
68 107 |
61 584 |
204 553 |
28.0 |
Valais |
477 158 |
216 471 |
474 933 |
317 204 |
1 485 766 |
59.5 |
Ticino |
74 193 |
279 312 |
331 153 |
131 491 |
816 149 |
81.1 |
Fribourg Region |
13 034 |
24 184 |
34 287 |
19 831 |
91 336 |
63.8 |
Aargau and Solothurn Region |
13 650 |
20 457 |
28 854 |
20 963 |
83 924 |
40.4 |
Methodology
The results are based on data provided by four international platforms: Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia Group and Tripadvisor. Data for accommodation that is not offered via these platforms is therefore not presented in these results.
The statistical population under consideration is as defined under NACE 55.2 'Holiday and other short-stay accommodation'. However, the (non-harmonised) categories of accommodation used by the platforms do not correspond to the existing concepts and definitions for tourism statistics. This can lead to additional problems concerning the coverage of the statistical population under consideration.
The data is aggregated by the platforms according to local administrative districts (in Switzerland, the communes, in German, Gemeinde) and transmitted to Eurostat. The platforms allocate the data to the communes based on the geo-coordinates of the accommodation.
The data sets of the four platforms are then aggregated by Eurostat. There is an assumption that a rental is only registered on one platform at any one time. The results about the rentals of the four platforms are added together.
For detailed information, see this note on methodology from Eurostat.
Documents
Further information and ordering data
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If you have any questions, please call or email us. Please bear in mind, that as the FSO receives the data from Eurostat in a form that is already aggregated, we may not be able to answer all questions about the content of the statistics. Eurostat can also be contacted directly (see link below).
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Experimental statistics from Eurostat on collaborative economy platforms