Hotel and non-hotel occupancy up in Paraguay

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Overall occupancy reached 29.8% in the period, according to the report, with the non-hotel sector standing out with an average of nearly 40% in its lodging level.

In the hotel area, services with the highest demand were resorts (45.5%) and boutique hotels (35.6%), while in the non-hotel area, hostels and inns (65%%), rural or farm tourism establishments (41.2%) and inns or family resorts (38.9%) stood out.

According to the survey conducted in 301 lodgings in several locations in the country, 52% of guests were Paraguayan, 18.2% Brazilian, 15.6% Argentine, 6.2% German, 2.4% Spaniards and 5.1% from other nations.

Leisure, recreation, vacations and/or tourism in general (56.9%) and professional, business, work and labor matters (37.7%) were cited as the main motives by guests.

SENATUR highlighted that the observed growth coincided with an improvement of the sanitary situation in Paraguay and the region in this period, as the number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in the South American nation decreased by 83% between the third and fourth quarters of the year.