Latvia: Arrivals at tourist accommodations up by 4.7 % in October
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According to the Central Statistical Bureau data, which were acquired by compiling the monthly information provided by sector representatives on the activity of tourist accommodations, in October 2025 arrivals at Latvian tourist accommodation establishments totalled 206.8 thousand, which is 4.7 % more than in October 2024. The number of nights spent by visitors at tourist accommodation establishments totalled 367.4 thousand, which is 6.5 % more than in October 2024.
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As the high season came to an end, in October 2025, compared to September, the number of travellers has decreased by 16.2 % (the number of residents reduced by 6.4 %, but the number of non-residents by 22.1 %), the number of nights spent by them went down by 13 % (the number of nights spent by residents reduced by 2.4 %, but the number of nights spent by non-residents by 18.7 %).
The number non-resident arrivals at tourist accommodation establishments made up 120.6 thousand in October 2025 (58.3 % of all arrivals), which is 1.2 % more than in October 2024. The number of nights spent by non-residents, compared to October last year, has grown by 3.8 % and comprised 224.4 thousand. Non-residents on average spent 1.9 nights1 at the tourist accommodation establishments (1.8 nights in October last year).
The greatest number of non-resident travellers came from Lithuania (15 thousand), Estonia (12.9 thousand), United Kingdom (12.5 thousand), Germany (10.1 thousand), Finland (7.4 thousand), Sweden (4.9 thousand), Poland (4.8 thousand), USA (4.6 thousand), Spain and Denmark (4.3 thousand).
Compared to arrivals in October 2024, in October 2025 there was a significant increase in the number of visitors from the United Kingdom (an increase of 64.8 % or 4.9 thousand) and from Italy (31.8 % or 0.7 thousand).
Most non-resident travellers were accommodated in Riga (80.7 %), followed by Jūrmala (4.9 %), Mārupe municipality (4.3 %), Liepāja municipality (1.9 %), and Sigulda municipality (1 %).
In October 2025 tourist accommodation establishments hosted 86.2 thousand residents, which is a year-over-year increase of 9.8 %. Residents spent 143 thousand nights at the establishments, which is a month-over-month increase of 11 %. Residents on average spent 1.7 nights at the tourist accommodation establishments (1.6 nights in October last year).
Mostly residents stayed in Riga (32.3 %), Jūrmala (11.7 %), Liepāja (6.8 %), Daugavpils (4.5 %), Sigulda municipality (4.1 %), Cēsis municipality (4 %) and Valmiera municipality (2.8 %).
In October, average room occupancy rate of hotels and similar accommodation2 in Latvia was 43 % (a year-over-year rise of 1.8 percentage points), 54.9 % – in Riga (a year-over-year increase of 2.4 percentage points).
In the ten months of 2025 the number of visitors in Latvian tourist accommodation establishments comprised 2.45 million, which is 4.9 % more than in the first ten months of 2024. The number of nights spent by visitors has grown by 6.6 % and comprised 4.33 million nights. Out of all visitors 1.46 million or 59.4 % were non-residents, but 997 thousand or 40.6 % were residents.
Methodological information
The information is compiled from the data provided by the respondents in the monthly Report on the activity of hotels and other accommodation establishments (CSB form 1-Accommodation). Economically active individual merchants and commercial companies whose main kind of economic activity corresponds to NACE Rev. 2.1 classes 55.10, 55.20, 55.30, as well as other merchants, budgetary institutions, associations, farms, and individuals providing short-term accommodation services in tourist accommodation establishments (also in addition to their main kind of economic activity in another sector) are included in the survey as respondents. In October the data on 1 048 accommodations was compiled.