A dataset with monthly data by visitors’ country of residence and tourist region can be found here:
| Last update: 28.08.2023
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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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2020 |
% Swiss visitors |
2021 |
% Swiss visitors |
2022 |
% Swiss visitors |
|
1st quarter |
1 522 852 | 38.5 | 1 385 644 | 64.6 | 1 896 653 | 49.7 |
2nd quarter |
564 993 | 72.1 | 1 310 858 | 69.9 | 1 556 995 | 32.7 |
3rd quarter |
2 054 996 | 57.5 | 2 282 936 | 48.4 | 2 529 266 | 26.5 |
4th quarter |
1 097 240 | 66.9 | 1 354 364 | 49 | 1 430 081 | 33.8 |
TOTAL |
5 240 081 | 55.5 | 6 333 802 | 56.5 | 7 412 995 | 35.1 |
| Vistors’ country of residence | Overnight stays | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st quarter | 2nd quarter | 3rd quarter | 4th quarter | TOTAL | |
| TOTAL | 1 896 653 | 1 556 995 | 2 529 266 | 1 430 081 | 7 412 995 |
| Switzerland | 942 372 | 508 991 | 669 027 | 483 908 | 2 604 298 |
| Total foreigners | 954 281 | 1 048 004 | 1 860 239 | 946 173 | 4 808 697 |
| Europe (excl. Switzerland) | 768 580 | 643 872 | 1 159 066 | 553 117 | 3 124 635 |
Germany |
201 760 | 213 688 | 300 197 | 145 165 | 860 810 |
France |
113 240 | 93 341 | 194 411 | 103 596 | 504 588 |
United Kingdom |
119 456 | 79 629 | 128 455 | 66 487 | 394 027 |
Netherlands |
95 491 | 47 169 | 143 552 | 36 016 | 322 228 |
Italy |
28 112 | 30 318 | 62 057 | 45 108 | 165 595 |
Belgium |
42 191 | 26 376 | 63 644 | 16 200 | 148 411 |
| America | 112 056 | 222 192 | 333 025 | 171 837 | 839 110 |
| Asia | 52 146 | 136 011 | 208 359 | 170 012 | 566 528 |
| Oceania | 9 021 | 14 987 | 31 282 | 26 949 | 82 239 |
| Africa | 4 728 | 5 446 | 8 945 | 7 350 | 26 469 |
| Unknown | 7 750 | 25 496 | 119 562 | 16 908 | 169 716 |
| Tourist region | Overnight stays | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st quarter | 2nd quarter | 3rd quarter | 4th quarter | TOTAL | % Swiss visitors | |
| TOTAL | 1 896 653 | 1 556 995 | 2 529 266 | 1 430 081 | 7 412 995 | 35.1 |
| Graubünden | 323 509 | 106 005 | 214 614 | 125 824 | 769 952 | 55.5 |
| Eastern Switzerland | 68 620 | 82 965 | 127 684 | 63 632 | 342 901 | 37.5 |
| Zurich Region | 123 088 | 174 821 | 216 354 | 166 562 | 680 825 | 22 |
| Lucerne / Lake Lucerne | 81 858 | 107 206 | 167 590 | 89 207 | 445 861 | 24.1 |
| Basel Region | 23 785 | 36 475 | 41 224 | 34 260 | 135 744 | 26.9 |
| Bern Region | 245 012 | 331 304 | 545 358 | 269 176 | 1 390 850 | 19.9 |
| Jura & Three-Lakes | 21 670 | 36 347 | 52 368 | 28 777 | 139 162 | 48.6 |
| Vaud | 140 159 | 135 383 | 206 390 | 125 616 | 607 548 | 31.7 |
| Geneva | 56 171 | 77 394 | 89 791 | 73 223 | 296 579 | 16.1 |
| Valais | 702 241 | 228 749 | 496 113 | 304 815 | 1 731 918 | 41 |
| Ticino | 73 120 | 188 527 | 293 060 | 101 451 | 656 158 | 57.8 |
| Fribourg Region | 18 146 | 24 781 | 39 907 | 21 306 | 104 140 | 44.5 |
| Aargau and Solothurn Region | 19 274 | 27 038 | 38 813 | 26 232 | 111 357 | 30.8 |
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
Contact: info-tour@bfs.admin.ch
Telephone: +41 58 463 61 97
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
