Hotels, Resorts & Cruise Lines Data for Journalists & Academics: 15 Ranked Sources

We rank for citability: relevance to this persona first, then Datadory’s 0-10 quality score, with the use-case line leading each entry. Seven of those nine strongest matches are government or intergovernmental publications — Eurostat, the UK ONS, the ITA’s NTTO program and the World Bank. The wider pool sits in our hotels-resorts-cruise-lines data hub.

Match the claim to the record before you chart it. Supply claims — how many beds a country actually has — belong to tour_cap_nat, the only census of establishments, bedrooms and bed-places across EU, EFTA and candidate countries. Demand claims belong to Eurostat – Nights Spent at Tourist Accommodation (tour_occ_arn2), whose ESMS notes warn that coverage thresholds exclude small establishments, so a national nights figure is a floor, not a census. For US inbound travel, quote the stage: NTTO publishes advance, preliminary and final arrival figures, and July 2026 numbers are still preliminary. Cross-country comparisons need a denominator caveat — in ST.INT.ARVL, 223 economies reported arrivals in 2019 but only 132 did in 2020. On cruising, verify ship specs against CruiseMapper’s fleet database and newbuild claims against the orderbook’s confirmed counts, then attribute both by name.

Name publisher, edition and access date, then borrow whatever identifier the publisher maintains. Both Eurostat series resolve by DOI — 10.2908/TOUR_CAP_NAT and 10.2908/TOUR_OCC_ARN2 — which makes them the two cleanest citations in European tourism reporting. Academic work on demand modelling should cite Antonio, Almeida and Nunes alongside the bookings CSV. AHLA figures are advocacy outputs modelled by Oxford Economics from CoStar/STR inventory data, so attribute both organisations rather than presenting the numbers as federal statistics. Because NTTO revises preliminary arrivals and ONS publishes revision triangles for its own series, print the date you downloaded, not just the reference year.

This slice spans every cadence except the exotic. Catalog-wide, 22.6% of 1,744 datasets.8% refresh at least weekly, so an annual statistical series is normal and a daily tracker is the exception worth naming. Scoring detail for the whole industry pool sits in our best hotels-resorts-cruise-lines datasets ranking, and narrative background in the hotels-resorts-cruise-lines data guide.