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Based on seasonally adjusted data, tourist arrivals were down 1.7% and tourism nights fell 2.0% compared with June 2025.
Commercial accommodation establishments received 71% of all guests, with arrivals rising 2.3% from a year earlier. Private and other accommodation establishments recorded a 12% decline.
Domestic tourist arrivals fell 2.6% year-on-year to 982,000, while domestic guest nights decreased 3.6% to nearly 2.2 million. Seasonally adjusted data showed domestic arrivals rising 1.4%, while domestic tourism nights fell 0.8%.
Commercial accommodation establishments registered 695,000 domestic arrivals and 1.5 million domestic guest nights. Hotels accounted for 66% of those arrivals, with their number rising 2.2% from a year earlier.
Domestic arrivals increased the most in the Győr and Pannonhalma tourism area, rising 11%, and fell the most in the Sopron region, declining 17%. Budapest recorded a 5.1% increase in domestic arrivals, while the number at Lake Balaton fell 1.9%.
International tourist arrivals decreased 1.8% to 874,000, while international guest nights fell 1.3% to 2.1 million. On a seasonally adjusted basis, foreign arrivals were unchanged and international tourism nights declined 0.8%.
Commercial accommodation establishments received 628,000 international arrivals and registered 1.5 million foreign guest nights. Hotels accounted for 80% of those arrivals, with their number increasing 5.0% year-on-year.
Foreign arrivals rose the most in the Sopron region, increasing 11%, while the Szeged region recorded the steepest decline, at 15%. International arrivals fell 2.4% in Budapest and 1.7% at Lake Balaton.
A total of 30,215 tourist accommodation establishments welcomed guests during the month, including 2,880 commercial establishments and 27,335 private or other accommodations. Of the commercial establishments, 1,033 hotels and 1,112 boarding houses were open for part or all of June.
Gross revenue at tourist accommodation establishments reached HUF 107.7 billion, down 0.5% at current prices from a year earlier.
Spending with Széchenyi Recreation Cards came to nearly HUF 3.4 billion, 14% lower than in June 2025.
In January-June, tourist accommodation establishments recorded 8.3 million arrivals, up 1.0% year-on-year. Domestic arrivals increased 2.3% to nearly 4.2 million, while international arrivals declined 0.2% to a similar level.
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