Cyprus recorded 19.4 overnight stays in tourist accommodation per resident in 2025, the third-highest tourism intensity among EU member states, according to data published by Eurostat on Friday. Only Croatia and Maltarecorded higher ratios.
Cyprus among the top three
Tourism intensity measures the number of overnight stays in tourist accommodation relative to a country’s population.
Croatia ranked first with 24.5 overnight stays per resident, followed by Malta with 21.7. Cyprus came third, ahead of Greece with 15.1 and Austria with 14.6.
The EU average stood at 7.0 overnight stays per resident in 2025, up from 6.7 in 2024.
Lowest tourism intensity
Romania recorded the lowest ratio, with 1.6 overnight stays per resident. Latvia followed with 2.7, while Poland and Slovakia each recorded 2.9.
Overnight stays across the EU
According to Eurostat, a total of 3.1 billion overnight stays were recorded in tourist accommodation across the EU in 2025, compared with 3.0 billion in 2024, an increase of 4.1%. Overnight stays by domestic and international tourists were almost equal in number.
Compared with 2015, when 2.5 billion overnight stays were recorded, the total rose by 26.5%.
Where tourists come from
The data show that 80.9% of overnight stays in 2025, approximately 2.5 billion, were made by domestic tourists or travellers from other EU member states. Tourists from other European countries accounted for 10.4%.
Visitors from North, Central and South America accounted for 4.9% of the total, with 155.5 million overnight stays. Tourists from Asia accounted for 2.6%, with 81.6 million overnight stays.
Visitors from Oceania accounted for 0.5%, with 15.2 million overnight stays, and those from Africa for 0.4%, with 12.9 million.
Fastest-growing markets
Between 2024 and 2025, tourists from Asia recorded the largest increase in overnight stays, at 15.4%, followed by tourists from Africa, at 13.7%.
Over the past decade, overnight stays by visitors from the Americas more than doubled, rising by 101.9% from almost 77 million in 2015.
Source: CNA
