European Cities Marketing has released its Benchmarking Report 2017. It shows that over the last 5 years (2012-2016), bednights in the cities included in the report have been still increasing at a faster rate (+14.2%) than of the 28 EU nations (+8.8%). Thus, confirming once again that city tourism is growing against disturbances.
The top 5 cities for 2016 looks the same as the previous year, besides Barcelona taking back its spot in the top 5 from Madrid. Remarkable is also that London was able to hold onto its spot as number one in bednights despite a negative growth rate (-3.2%), the second highest negative growth rate behind Paris (-8.2%), which also held onto its spot as number two in bednights.
The city that has gone up the strongest is Barcelona (8.5%). with the highest growth rate out of the top 15 cities, followed by Amsterdam (7.3%) which jumped up two spots from the previous year.
Some more facts and figures you’ll find here. The full report is available at €990 (free for members of European Cities Marketing).