Ministry of Tourism figures track ‘domestic tourist visits’ — a count that includes day-trippers, visits to monuments, and multiple visits by the same traveller. They do not map to hotel nights in your district.
The owner’s planning question is different: how many people stay overnight within 10 kilometres of my property, who are they, and which months do they arrive? State tourism boards publish district-level data that is far more useful than national headlines.
Growth in domestic travel is real. Its translation into your hotel’s occupancy depends entirely on your location, feeder market, and the alternatives available to your guests.
A hotel in a tier-2 city with strong weekend leisure demand and a property in a highway corridor serving business travellers are both ‘benefiting from domestic travel growth’ — but they need completely different operating strategies to capture that benefit.