{"id":102103,"date":"2022-02-11T10:02:29","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T08:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/?p=102103"},"modified":"2022-02-11T10:02:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T08:02:31","slug":"domestic-tourism-reached-record-levels-in-2021-but-foreign-tourism-at-1997-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/domestic-tourism-reached-record-levels-in-2021-but-foreign-tourism-at-1997-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Domestic tourism reached record levels in 2021, but foreign tourism at 1997 levels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">According to Statistics Estonia analyst, <span class=\"s1\"><strong>Helga Laurmaa<\/strong> &#8220;Accommodation establishments have never served so many domestic tourists in a year, but the number of foreign tourists was comparable to 1997.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"s1\">In total, hotels and guest houses accommodated a little over 2 million tourists in 2021. Although this figure is 8 per cent higher than 2020, it is 44 per cent less than in 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"s1\">However, despite the pandemic, the number of domestic tourists in 2021 exceeded the 2019 figures with a 3 per cent increase.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"s1\">Of the foreign visitors to Estonia in 2021, the most common countries of origin were Finland (144,000 visitors), Latvia (89,000), Germany (42,000), and Russia and Lithuania (29,000)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"s1\">Although foreign tourist numbers have decreased considerably during the pandemic, there are already some signs of recovery, with the number of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/estonia-saw-4x-more-foreign-tourists-in-november-2021-than-previous-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s2\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">foreign tourists in November 2021 being four times higher than in 2020<\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"s4\">Source <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.err.ee\/1608494912\/statistics-2021-foreign-tourism-at-1997-level-domestic-tourism-set-record\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s2\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">ERR<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; According to Statistics Estonia analyst, Helga Laurmaa &#8220;Accommodation establishments have never served so many domestic tourists in a year, &hellip; <span class=\"read-more-excerpt\">Read more<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":102104,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[14063,14064,13072,13763,14062],"class_list":["post-102103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-estonia","tag-foreign-tourists-estonia","tag-statistics-estonia","tag-estonia-2","tag-tourism-estonia","tag-domestic-tourists-estonia"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102103"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102110,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102103\/revisions\/102110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}