More hotel rooms booked in 2014, occupancy inched up

Hotel industry in Poland recorded good results last year, propertynews.pl informed. As many as 21.6 million rooms in all of the hotel infrastucutre (including, hostels, spas, B&Bs and other lodging facilities were booked, which translates to a 8.3 percent increase on a yearly basis and the average occupancy rate grew by 1.1 percentage points, to 42.7 percent. Number of foreign tourists, rose by 5.3 percent y/y and reached 6.7 million people. When it comes to hotels alone, 18.5 million rooms were booked, a 10 percent more than in 2013. As many as 6.2 million foreign tourists visited them, an increase of 5.7 percent y/y.