Revenue from rooms amounted to 21.30 billion forints and revenue from catering came to 7.25 billion forints. Occupancy rates at hotels averaged 61.0%, up by 4.4 points from September of last year.

Domestic guests debited 932 million forints to SZÉP voucher cards during the month, up by 13.3%. In the first nine months of the year guest nights in Hungary rose by 6.4% to 20,746,356.

Guest nights spent by Hungarians were up by 6.3% at 10,307,883 and nights spent by foreigners were up by 6.5% at 10,438,473.

In January-September the total revenue of commercial accommodations grew by 11.8% to 282.9 billion forints and occupancy rate at hotels averaged 55.3%, 3 percentage points higher than the same period a year earlier.

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