Tourist arrivals in August went up by 6.5 per cent when compared to the same month last year, the National Statistics Office said.

It said they spent more than 1.1 million nights in hotels, guesthouses, hostels and tourist village, an increase of 2.3 per cent over the same month last year.

All hotel categories recorded increases in total nights spent, except three-star hotels. The largest share of guest nights was reported in four-star hotels, with 508,382 nights, or 45.3 per cent of the total.

The average length of went down from 6.7 nights in August 2013 to 6.4 nights last August. The net use of bed-places stood at 87.2 per cent, up by 4.4 percentage points when compared to the same month last yea.