FACTBOX - Crisis hurts tourism in Europe

(Reuters) - Here are some details about winners and losers in tourism around Europe:

WINNERS:

* ICELAND -- A dramatic tumble in the Icelandic crown has attracted foreign tourists and encouraged residents to spend their holidays at home. Iceland has also benefited from publicity over its crisis, with more travellers now aware of the remote, glacial land.

LOSERS:

* AUSTRIA -- Austria's economic research institute, Wifo, expects tourism by foreigners to contribute 3.5 percent less in real terms to Austria's GDP in 2009.

* BULGARIA -- Foreign tourist visits dropped 8 percent in the first six months on an annual basis to 2.12 million people. The decrease in June alone was 12.7 percent, data from the statistics office showed. Industry officials expect about 20 percent fewer tourists to visit Bulgaria's Black Sea resorts.

* CROATIA -- Official figures show the overall number of tourists fell 7 percent in the first six months of 2009, but the number of stays was down by just 3 percent. Tourist revenues fell 4.4 percent in Q1. However, the last weekend in July and the first in August, seen as the peak of the season, recorded an unexpectedly high number of foreign arrivals, prompting officials to say the season may not turn out as bad as feared.

* CZECH REPUBLIC -- Prague, the Czech Republic's main tourist destination, saw an 18 percent fall in tourism numbers in Q1 as Europeans and Americans cut back travel, according to the government agency CzechTourism.

* FRANCE -- France faces a lacklustre rather than disastrous tourist season, with stay-at-home French holidaymakers helping make up for a drop in foreign visitors, tourism officials say. French tourism body Protourisme said there was a 7 percent drop in the number of nights people stayed in French hotels, camp sites and B&Bs during July.

* GREECE -- Greek tourism industry groups see their revenues falling about 15 percent in 2009. Tourism accounts for nearly a fifth of Greece's 250 billion euros (215 billion pounds) economy.

* HUNGARY -- In the January-May period, the number of foreign tourists dropped by 15.6 percent year-on-year, with foreign guest nights falling by 14.2 percent.

* ITALY -- Tourism accounts for about 10 percent of GDP. Turnover for summer 2009 is expected to drop 15 percent, according to trade body Confturismo-Federalberghi. Hotel bookings by Italian and foreign tourists were down 7.1 percent between January and July, mainly due to the economic downturn and swine flu.

* SLOVENIA -- In the first six months of 2009 the number of overnight stays fell by 5 percent compared to the same period in 2008, the Statistical Office said in July.

* SPAIN -- Spain's tourism industry accounts for about 11 percent of the country's economy. In the first six months of the year, foreign tourist arrivals dropped 11.4 percent to 23.6 million, although there was a slight improvement in June, mainly due to a slowdown in the decline of British tourists, according to official figures.

* SWITZERLAND -- Switzerland expects the number of hotel stays to fall by over 7 percent in the summer season from May to October, the sharpest drop since 1982.

* TURKEY -- The tourism industry looks to have held up well in terms of foreign arrivals. The number of visitors in the first six months of 2009 fell only 0.9 percent to 10.6 million. However, those tourists are spending significantly less. Tourism receipts fell by 9.6 percent in the second quarter to $4.24 billion (2.57 billion pounds), after falling 11.2 percent in the first quarter.

* SOME NUMBERS:

According to the U.N. tourism barometer, worldwide international tourism arrivals are down 8 percent from January-April 2009, with Europe second-worst hit -- down 10 percent. The Middle East was down 18 percent.

Outbound tourism from Europe's second largest market, Britain, has been strongly affected by the depreciation of sterling.

Source: Reuters bureaux/United Nations World Tourism Barometer: