Fewer nights spent in European Union hotels in 2009. - The decline in the number of hotel nights in the EU27, which began in the middle of 2008, slowed down during 2009, explains the EU's statistical office, Eurostat, in a recent report (Tourism in Europe: First results for 2009). In 2009, nearly 1.5 billion nights were spent in hotels and similar establishments in the EU27, a decrease of 5.1% compared with 2008, after an annual change of -0.2% in 2008 and +3.5% in 2007. The number of hotel...