Tourism Law in Europe

3 Figure 2: Nights spent at tourist accommodation establishments in EU Member States 3 In 2019, the Adriatic coast in Croatia 4 ranked second in the Top 20 EU tourism destinations. The share of non-residents nights in the total number of nights amounted to 93.5 per cent. In 2019, when it comes to the average occupancy rate of bed places in hotels, Croatia ranked fourth (after Cyprus, Malta and Spain) with 60 per cent of the net occupancy rate. 3 Graph retrieved from Eurostat news release 18/2020-24 January 2020, First estimates of tourism in the EU in 2019 , https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/2995521/10371904/4-24012020-AP-EN.pdf/225398de-fa6a- 4ed9-6052-9167d39f2ea2, accessed on 9 March 2021. 4 Of the total number of nights spent in Croatia, as many as 92.5 per cent were spent in the Adriatic coast region. Particularly popular were the rural areas. As many as 63.4 per cent of nights were spent in rural areas. Eurostat: Tourism statistics – annual results for the accommodation sector, October 2020, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/pdfscache/37341.pdf, pp. 10-11, accessed on 9 March 2021.