Hotels, hostels, guesthouses and tourist villages saw guests and guest nights decline slightly in June when compared to the same month last year, new figures show. 

The number of guests declined by 2.6 per cent to 152,434, with guests spending a total of 873,671 nights during the month. The latter figure is 2.8 per cent lower than that of June 2015. 

Figures issued by the National Statistics Office showed that 4-star hotels took the lion's share of guests, accounting for 49.1 per cent of total bed nights.

The average length of stay in collective accommodation establishments stood at 5.7 nights during the month under review, at par with June 2015. The net use of bed-places stood at 72.9 per cent, down by 1.9 percentage points when compared to the corresponding month last year. 

Nationally, there were 175 active collective accommodation establishments during June, with a net capacity of 17,980 bedrooms and 40,014 bed-places. 

January - June

Total guests during the first six months of 2016 amounted to 741,905, an increase of 1.6 per cent over the same period in 2015. Total nights spent went up by 2.2 per cent, reaching nearly 4.0 million. The net use of bed-places declined by 0.2 percentage points to 58.6 per cent.