Statistics about accommodation include data about capacity, occupancy rates, and guest nights for the commercial accommodation industry.

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Information releases

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Accommodation Survey
This monthly release provides information on short-term commercial accommodation activity at a regional and national level.

Data

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Infoshare 
Select the following categories from the Infoshare homepage for time-series information about accommodation:
Subject category: Tourism
Group: Accommodation Survey

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Archived Accommodation Survey pivot tables
Updated monthly, the Accommodation Survey pivot tables provide more detailed information than the tables in the information release. The pivot tables break the survey variables down by regional tourism organisation areas and territorial authority areas.

Access the latest pivot tables by clicking on the Accommodation Survey link at the top of this webpage, then selecting the latest release.

See Archived Accommodation Survey pivot tables for tables from July 1996 to August 2009.

Information about data

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Information about the Accommodation Survey 

Information for survey respondents 

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Tourism
Tourism statistics about domestic and international visitors.

Retail trade
The sales of a wide range of businesses, including those within the accommodation industry.