October, the Strongest Month in Budapest Tourism

October was the fastest growing month of 2019 in terms of guest arrivals and guest nights in Budapest, an analysis by the Budapest Festival and Tourism Center (BFTK) notes.

Sales of commercial accommodation in Budapest were close to HUF 25 billion. For the first time in a long time, not only lodging revenues have increased significantly, but also the number of visitors, the Hungarian news agency MTI quotes the analysis.
In Budapest, guest arrivals increased by 5.5% and guest nights by 6.3%. According to the analysis, the driving force behind this were foreign visitors: in October, 372,068 of them arrived and the number of overnight stays was 862,427, the former showing an increase of 8.3% and the latter of 9.6% compared to the tenth month of the previous year. In the meantime, the number of visitors from within Hungary continued to decline.