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The Guernsey Business CensusChapter 10 of 16Draft

Accommodation

169 organisations are counted with Accommodation as their primary sector — 1 in 20 of everything with a sector on record, and the 10th largest of 16. A further 9 organisations work in it alongside another sector.

As of 4 September 2026⧉ Cite this chapterBrowse the Accommodation directory← The whole census

The count

169

organisations counted with Accommodation as their primary sector, across the Bailiwick’s four inhabited islands.

178Work in it at all
6Sub-sectors on record
10Parishes represented
99With capabilities mapped
9Capability domains

Coverage

#coverage ⧉

How complete is this sector’s count?

169 counted & publishedmeasured coverage 79%

An estimated 79% of this sector’s organisations are counted — the 8th-lowest measured coverage of the 16 sectors.

Every count in this chapter is a floor, never a total.

How coverage is measured →

Headline figures

#headlines ⧉

The figures you can quote

The figures in this chapter that clear the citable bar — coverage high enough, count large enough, denominator named. A figure that does not clear it appears further down as a chart, badged, or not at all.

The largest kind of Accommodation organisation on record89This attribute is on record for 169 of 169 organisations (100%)Self-Catering — 1 in 2 of the sector, ahead of Hotels (43) and Guest Houses & B&Bs (19).
Accommodation organisations with a website of their own63%Counted over all 169 active organisations107 of 169, against 67% island-wide — 4 points below the island rate, the 5th-lowest own-site rate of the 15 sectors where it can be counted. Verified from published evidence; businesses without a web presence are under-represented.
Organisations whose main line of work is Accommodation169Of the 3,406 organisations with a primary sector (100% of 3,406)1 in 20 of the organisations with a primary sector on record — the 10th largest of 16 sectors counted.
Organisations working in Accommodation at all178Counted over all 3,680 active organisations9 more than the 169 that call it their main line — counted in every sector they work in, so sector totals add up to more than the island does.

What stands out

#signature ⧉

22% of Accommodation trades off Guernsey, against 7% of everything counted

66% of those with a parish on record are in the seven parishes outside the town and the two northern ones, against 31% of everything counted with both a parish and a sector. Both ends are shares of the organisations whose parish is on record — parish is null by contract on Alderney, Sark and Herm, so the off-island rows above are not in either base. The parish maps below draw the same fact cell by cell.

Sector against island#signature-bailiwick ⧉

Where Accommodation is, and where everything else is

Of the 3,406 Accommodation organisations with a primary sector (100% of 3,406)

AccommodationThe island
0%50%100%Trading on Alderney, Sark or Herm7%22%In the seven parishes outside the town and th…31%66%

Each track carries both values at its ends; the gap between accommodation and the island is in the table view. Measured in share of organisations.

Every counted organisation has an island on record, so both ends of this row are shares of everything counted. Both ends are shares of the organisations whose parish is on record — parish is null by contract on Alderney, Sark and Herm, so the off-island rows above are not in either base.

The seven parishes are Castel, St Martin, Forest, St Andrew, St Saviour, St Pierre du Bois and Torteval — everything outside St Peter Port, St Sampson and Vale.

Sub-sectors

#composition ⧉

Self-Catering leads, on 89 organisations

Every organisation is counted once, in its primary sub-sector. Separately, 9 organisations outside this count work in Accommodation alongside another sector — they are not in the bars below.

Primary sub-sector#composition-l2 ⧉

Accommodation by sub-sector

Counted over all 169 active Accommodation organisations

Self-Catering89 53%Hotels43 25%Guest Houses & B&Bs19 11%Campsites11 7%Direct at sector level5 3%Hostels2 1%

Counts each organisation's primary sub-sector, so the bars sum to the sector, and each is the roll call the directory lists under that name.

5 organisations are classified straight at sector level with no sub-sector — a real cohort, kept visible rather than folded into the largest bar. 9 further organisations work in Accommodation alongside another sector and are not in these bars: each is counted in the sub-sector of the sector it calls its main line. "Works in", never "is in".

Parishes

#parishes ⧉

St Peter Port holds 27 of them

1 in 5 of the 131 whose parish is on record. Off Guernsey: 16 on Alderney, 19 on Sark and 3 on Herm.

Headcount#parishes-count ⧉

Accommodation organisations by parish

A parish on record for 131 of 169 Accommodation organisations (78%)

Organisations027
St Peter P…27St Sampson4Vale14Castel25St Saviour9St Pierre du Bois14Torteval2Forest5St Martin27St Andrew4

Tap a parish for its full name and count — at this size some shapes are too small to carry a label. Every parish is in the table.

Guernsey parishes only; Alderney, Sark and Herm are counted in the island split above.

a further 38 organisations trade on Alderney, Sark or Herm and are counted in the island split rather than on this map.

Concentration#parishes-lq ⧉

Where Accommodation is over- and under-represented

A parish on record for 131 of 169 Accommodation organisations (78%)

Share vs the islandunder ½×below island share≈ island shareup to 2×over 2×
St Peter P…0.48St Sampson—Vale0.81Castel2.29St Saviour2.26St Pierre du Bois3.52Torteval—Forest1.14St Martin2.36St Andrew—

Tap a parish for its full name and count — at this size some shapes are too small to carry a label. Every parish is in the table.

The same island, drawn on a location quotient: this sector's share of a parish against its share of the island. Hatched parishes hold too few of this sector to compare at all. Parishes holding fewer than 30 of this sector are drawn and tabled but never named in a sentence: a quotient over a handful of organisations moves on one new record, and a superlative that flips that easily is not one.

Capabilities

#capabilities ⧉

What they can do

Capabilities as published by each organisation and resolved to the graph; a business with no capability claim is not necessarily a business that does none of these things.

By group#capability-groups ⧉

Capability groups on record

A capability on record for 99 of 169 Accommodation organisations (59%)

On record for 59% — indicative
Self-catering47 47%Hotels & serviced stays44 44%Dining & occasions41 41%Drinks & bar36 36%Catering & private chefs22 22%Camping & unusual stays11 11%Takeaway & street food4 4%Bakery, cakes & sweet treats2 2%

Capabilities as published by each organisation and resolved to the graph; a business with no capability claim is not necessarily a business that does none of these things.

54 of the 99 with a capability on record span two or more of these groups (1 in 2). Two capabilities inside one group are one trade, not two, which is why this counts groups rather than nodes. 59% of the sector have at least one service resolved to the graph, across 9 domains, against 71% island-wide. The typical mapped organisation holds 2 capabilities, against 3 island-wide.

The busiest nodes#capability-nodes ⧉

What the most organisations are on record for

A capability on record for 99 of 169 Accommodation organisations (59%)

On record for 59% — indicative
Self-catering stays47 47%Hotel stays37 37%Bar & lounge36 36%Breakfast35 35%Functions & parties29 29%Hotel function rooms29 29%Dinner27 27%Private dining24 24%Wedding venues & receptions23 23%Lunch22 22%Wedding catering19 19%Sunday lunch & roasts18 18%

An organisation on two of these is counted on both, so the rows add up to more than the number of organisations.

What goes with what#capability-pairs ⧉

Capabilities held together

A capability on record for 99 of 169 Accommodation organisations (59%)

On record for 59% — indicative
Organisations032
Self-caterin…Hotel staysBar & loungeBreakfastFunctions &…Hotel functi…DinnerPrivate dini…Wedding venu…LunchWedding cate…Sunday lunch…Self-caterin…Hotel staysBar & loungeBreakfastFunctions &…Hotel functi…DinnerPrivate dini…Wedding venu…LunchWedding cate…Sunday lunch…

Each cell counts the organisations on record for both capabilities; the diagonal is blank on purpose. Capabilities as published by each organisation and resolved to the graph; a business with no capability claim is not necessarily a business that does none of these things.

How central is it?#capability-roles ⧉

Is this what they do, or one of many things they do?

A positioning note on record for 53 of 169 Accommodation organisations (31%)

On record for 31% — indicative
Core to the business33 62%One of many services23 43%A sideline21 40%This is what they do16 30%

The roles overlap: one business can be “this is what they do” for one capability and “a sideline” for another, so these rows add up past the number of businesses.

Rooms

#specific ⧉

Rooms

On record for 89 of 169 — indicative, so the chart is drawn and badged rather than quoted.

Rooms#sector-specific ⧉

Rooms — Accommodation

Rooms on record for 89 of 169 Accommodation organisations (53%)

On record for 53% — indicative
1–5 rooms36 40%6–15 rooms15 17%16–40 rooms27 30%41+ rooms11 12%

Verified from published evidence; businesses without a web presence are under-represented.

A further 19 organisations give a figure as prose ("four cottage apartments", "up to 30 rooms") and are not counted here — a number read out of a sentence is a ceiling or a bedroom count as often as it is a room count, so the census reports the prose rather than reading it.

Online presence

#digital ⧉

63% of Accommodation organisations have a website of their own

Against 67% island-wide — 4 points below the island rate, the 5th-lowest own-site rate of the 15 sectors where it can be counted. The gap is the robust part: the sector’s own rate is measured over the organisations we have found, and the ones still missing are disproportionately the web-invisible.

Sector against island#digital-vs-island ⧉

Digital presence, this sector and the island

Counted over all 169 active Accommodation organisations

AccommodationThe island
0%50%100%Has a website63%67%Website on a .gg domain12%27%Links a social account of any kind41%52%Links a Facebook page40%49%Links an Instagram account22%23%

Each track carries both values at its ends; the gap between accommodation and the island is in the table view. Measured in share of organisations.

Verified from published evidence; businesses without a web presence are under-represented.

Each row is a share of all organisations counted, in the sector and island-wide — not a share of those with a website, so the rows are comparable with one another.

Accommodation organisations with a website of their own107Counted over all 169 active Accommodation organisationsA site of their own on record — not a directory listing or a social page.
Of those websites, the share on a .gg domain1 in 5Counted over all 169 active Accommodation organisations21 of 107, against 40% of the 2,470 island-wide. Counts the .gg family — .gg, .co.gg, .org.gg and the rest.21 organisations — too few to headline

Gaps

#gaps ⧉

What this chapter cannot yet say

These modules are on record for too few of the 169 organisations counted here to draw. A blank is deliberate: the module reports its base rather than a number it cannot stand behind.

  • Founding years37 of 169 on record
  • Opening hours25 of 169 on record

This chapter’s row on the evidence map →

Newly verified

#pulse ⧉

The last 90 days

+73
Accommodation organisations added to the register (discovery, not openings)
0
recorded as no longer trading in the window

Use these numbers

#use ⧉

Free to reuse, with attribution

Every section has a stable anchor and every count traces to published evidence — licence CC BY 4.0, credit “Island Graph” with a link.

census.csvsector × parishcensus.jsonevery aggregateAbout the dataFull methodologyPress desk
Island Graph, The Guernsey Business Census — Accommodation, island.gg/census/accommodation — as of 4 September 2026.

The whole census →

How this chapter counts

#method ⧉

The bases every figure here divides by

This chapter counts over the 169 active organisations whose primary sector is Accommodation — 1 in 20 of the 3,406 with a primary sector on record; the wider 178 who work in Accommodation at all are counted in every sector they work in, and are used only where a sentence says “works in”. Each module then divides by what is actually on record for it — a parish for 131, a founding year for 37, a capability resolved to the graph for 99, opening hours that resolve to a weekly grid for 25 — and those bases are printed under every chart, because the denominator is part of the datum.

This sector’s own coverage was measured at 79% on 3 September 2026, by capture–recapture against Google's business listings for the Bailiwick, with every organisation that was itself added from those listings left out of the comparison so the two counts stay independent. Every count above is a floor.

This chapter’s row on the evidence map — what each module here may and may not claim →

Full methodology — populations, tiers, biases and how coverage is measured →