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The "black" year of hotels: a 82% decrease in tourist overnight stays compared to 2019

In the past year, the hotel industry in Israel recorded the most negative record in overnight stays and occupancy in hotels in the country, and was almost completely wiped out.

Room occupancy in 2020 was only 25%, compared to 70% in the past year.

And 2021 is not expected to bode well either

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Ziv Reinstein

Sunday, 24 January 2021, 14:09

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Hotels in the country have "snatched" strongly in the past year, like the entire tourism industry in the country, but it seems that the year 2021 is also going to be dismal for hoteliers.

Data from the Hotel Association summarizing the past year show that the industry recorded an 82% decrease in tourist overnight stays compared to 2019, a 64% decrease in total hotel overnight stays and room occupancy of only 25% compared to almost 70% in the past year.

These dismal figures, which sum up the year 2020, indicate more than anything the critical condition of the hotel industry in Israel.

This negative trend continues, as mentioned, also into 2021, against the background of the third closure, which completely closed the hotels in the country and the uncertainty regarding the future.

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The industry has been almost wiped out

These data become extreme in their severity against the background of the fact that 2019 was a record year for incoming tourism in hotel and occupancy rates with about 25.8 million person-nights (about 47% tourist person-nights and about 53% Israeli person-nights) and an average room occupancy of about 70%.

The expectation was that 2020 would break more records.

The hotel industry is a industry that is sensitive to volatility due to geopolitical events, and as such has already seen very difficult years mainly due to wars and geopolitical crises.

However, it has never come so close to being completely wiped out, as in the current crisis.

Just for comparison, the most severe crisis that befell the industry up to the Corona crisis was in the wake of the second intifada, which culminated in 2002, which recorded about 14.6 million hotel nights and room occupancy of only about 40%.

From the summary of the overnight stays of 2020, it can be seen that the crisis of this year surpassed all its predecessors and also the year 2002, which was, as mentioned, so far the most difficult year in its history.

The Hotel Association stated: "In light of the data proving the human damage to the hotel industry, there is a critical need for a multi-year program to rehabilitate tourism in Israel. "By opening it to the Israeli public immediately after leaving the quarantine."

81% decrease in occupancy in Nazareth hotels.

Golden Crown Hotel in the city (Photo: PR, PR)

The year 2020 in Israeli hotels: the numbers

• The total number of overnight stays in hotels was about 9.2 million - a decrease of 64% compared to 2019.

• Tourist person-nights totaled about 2.2 million - a decrease of 82% compared to 2019.

• Israelis' overnight stays amounted to about 7 million - a decrease of 49% compared to 2019.

* Room occupancy of all hotels amounted to only 25% compared to 69.5% in 2019 - a decrease of 64%.

(National occupancy in the 10 months since the crisis began (March-December 2020) was only about 18%!)

• In inbound tourist areas, annual room occupancy was even lower than average:

• In Tel Aviv: annual occupancy of 20% compared to 76% in 2019 - a decrease of 74%.

• In Jerusalem: occupancy of 19% compared to 71% - a decrease of 73%.

• In Nazareth: occupancy of 14% compared to 72% - a decrease of 81%.

• In Netanya: occupancy of 20% compared to 64% - a decrease of 66%.

• In Tiberias: occupancy of 22% compared to 68% - a decrease of 67%.

• In Haifa: occupancy of 20% compared to 64% - a decrease of 70%.

• The tourist islands - Eilat and the Dead Sea - also had sharp declines in annual catches:

• In the Dead Sea: Occupancy of 28% compared to 70% in 2019 - a decrease of 60%.

• And in Eilat: occupancy of 38% compared to 73% - a decrease of 49%.

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