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TOTAL VISITORS BY NATIONALITY
% var. % total Table 12.8
2020 2021 21/20 2021
Total visitors Spanish 2,425,757 2,576,379 6.2 47.5
French 2,426,615 2,462,957 1.5 45.4
Others 354,260 383,079 8.1 7.1
Tourists Spanish 1,326,519 1,394,313 5.1 71.5
French 307,528 379,042 23.3 19.4
Others 237,536 175,493 -26.1 9.0
Same-day visitors Spanish 1,099,238 1,182,066 7.5 34.0
French 2,119,087 2,083,915 -1.7 60.0
Others 116,724 207,586 77.8 6.0
TOTAL VISITORS 5,206,632 5,422,415 4.1 100.0
Source: Department of Stat st cs.

Despite the small increase in tourists recorded in 2021, the number of overnight stays continued
to shrink for the second consecutive year (-12.8% in 2021 and -34.8% in 2020), resulting in a
historic low of just over 5 million overnight stays in 2021, far from the more than 8 million on
average counted in the five years before the pandemic. This means that the average overnight
stay has shrunk from 3.1 days in 2020 to 2.6
days in 2021. The number of overnight stays The number of overnight stays
decreased in all types of accommodation cont nued to shrink despite the small
except campsites, where they increased 49%.
The steepest falls were in hotels (-12%) and increase in tourists recorded in 2021. 105
aparthotels (-23%) – a category that includes
holiday apartments. Although this trend was negative, hotels and aparthotels are the types of
establishment with the highest percentage of overnight stays, 55% and 16%, respectively. In the
case of friends’ or family’s homes, the decline was 14%, and in the case of own homes or rented
homes the fall was 38%.

In 2021, the number of employees The moderately positive trend in tourism did
in hotels and catering was 29% not prevent the decline in employment for
lower than in 2019. the second consecutive year. Specifically, the
number of employees in this sector decreased
15.9%, to 3,640, the lowest figure since 1993.
The fall is added to that of 2020, of a similar size, making employment in 2021 29% lower than
the figure in 2019. This trend highlights the fact that the ERTO furlough scheme, despite being a
key instrument to contain the negative impact of the pandemic on employment, was not enough
to prevent a significant decline in jobs in the sector. Wages also fell slightly (-0.9%) due to the
context of crisis in the sector. The number of accommodation establishments remained stable at
363 and the number of catering establishments only fell by three, to 668. In line with the different
rate of recovery in the two fields of tourism, electricity consumption (only FEDA data) increased
8.8% in hotels and catering, but fell 12.3% in the ski resorts due to the bad 2020-2021 season. The Andorran economy: developments in the main sectors | XII. Services

The number of passes sold (ski days) and days that ski resorts are open are good indicators for
calculating activity linked to skiing during the winter months. The 2021-2022 season was positive
despite the difficulties, and this enabled the ski resorts to obtain results comparable with the
pre-pandemic seasons. The Andorran ski resorts opened 137 days (compared with 93 days in the
previous season), with a total of 2,362,482 ski days sold (contrasting with the meagre 304,438
in the 2020-2021 season). This figure represents only 3% fewer ski days than in the 2018-2019
season, the last that was unaffected by COVID-19. As for the different markets, the resorts