Accommodation
172 organisations are counted with Accommodation as their primary sector — 5% of everything with a sector on record, and the 10th largest of 16. A further 3 organisations work in it alongside another sector.
The count
organisations counted with Accommodation as their primary sector, across the Bailiwick’s four inhabited islands.
Coverage
#coverage ⧉How complete is this sector’s count?
An estimated 79% of this sector’s organisations are counted — mid-table on measured coverage: joint 10th of the 16 sectors.
Every count in this chapter is a floor, never a total.
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.
What stands out
#signature ⧉23% of Accommodation trades off Guernsey, against 7% of everything counted
65% 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.
Where Accommodation is, and where everything else is
Of the 3,539 Accommodation organisations with a primary sector (100% of 3,539)
The right-hand column is the gap between accommodation and the island; both values are in the table view. Measured in share of organisations.
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.
| Sector against island | Accommodation | The island | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trading on Alderney, Sark or Herm | 23% | 7% | +16% |
| In the seven parishes outside the town and the two northern parishes | 65% | 31% | +34% |
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 90 organisations
Every organisation is counted once, in its primary sub-sector. Separately, 3 organisations outside this count work in Accommodation alongside another sector — they are not in the bars below.
Accommodation by sub-sector
Counted over all 172 active Accommodation organisations
| Primary sub-sector | Organisations | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Self-Catering | 90 | 52% |
| Hotels | 43 | 25% |
| Guest Houses & B&Bs | 22 | 13% |
| Campsites | 11 | 6% |
| Direct at sector level | 4 | 2% |
| Hostels | 2 | 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.
4 organisations are classified straight at sector level with no sub-sector — a real cohort, kept visible rather than folded into the largest bar. 3 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 29 Accommodation organisations
22% of the 132 whose parish is on record. Off Guernsey: 18 on Alderney, 19 on Sark and 3 on Herm.
Accommodation organisations by parish
A parish on record for 132 of 172 Accommodation organisations (77%)
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.
| Parish | Organisations | Share |
|---|---|---|
| St Peter Port | 29 | 22% |
| St Martin | 28 | 21% |
| Castel | 25 | 19% |
| Vale | 13 | 10% |
| St Pierre du Bois | 13 | 10% |
| St Saviour | 9 | 7% |
| Forest | 5 | 4% |
| St Sampson | 4 | 3% |
| St Andrew | 4 | 3% |
| Torteval | 2 | 2% |
Guernsey parishes only; Alderney, Sark and Herm are counted in the island split above.
a further 40 organisations trade on Alderney, Sark or Herm and are counted in the island split rather than on this map.
Where Accommodation is over- and under-represented
A parish on record for 132 of 172 Accommodation organisations (77%)
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.
| Parish | Organisations | vs island (LQ) |
|---|---|---|
| St Peter Port | 29 | 0.51 |
| St Martin | 28 | 2.39 |
| Castel | 25 | 2.24 |
| Vale | 13 | 0.76 |
| St Pierre du Bois | 13 | 3.31 |
| St Saviour | 9 | 2.20 |
| Forest | 5 | 1.15 |
| St Sampson | 4 | — |
| St Andrew | 4 | — |
| Torteval | 2 | — |
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.
Capability groups on record
A capability on record for 99 of 172 Accommodation organisations (58%)
On record for 58% — indicative| By group | Organisations | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Self-catering | 48 | 48% |
| Hotels & serviced stays | 45 | 45% |
| Dining & occasions | 35 | 35% |
| Catering & private chefs | 23 | 23% |
| Drinks & bar | 15 | 15% |
| Camping & unusual stays | 7 | 7% |
| Corporate, relocation & long-term stays | 6 | 6% |
| Takeaway & street food | 2 | 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. 58% 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.
What the most organisations are on record for
A capability on record for 99 of 172 Accommodation organisations (58%)
On record for 58% — indicative| The busiest nodes | Organisations | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Self-catering stays | 48 | 48% |
| Hotel stays | 37 | 37% |
| Functions & parties | 27 | 27% |
| Breakfast | 24 | 24% |
| Private dining | 24 | 24% |
| Hotel function rooms | 23 | 23% |
| Wedding catering | 20 | 20% |
| Sunday lunch & roasts | 18 | 18% |
| Afternoon tea | 17 | 17% |
| Room service | 13 | 13% |
| Seafood restaurant | 13 | 13% |
| Set menus | 11 | 11% |
An organisation on two of these is counted on both, so the rows add up to more than the number of organisations.
Capabilities held together
A capability on record for 99 of 172 Accommodation organisations (58%)
On record for 58% — indicative| What goes with what | Sector | Count | Row share | vs island (LQ) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Self-catering stays | Self-catering stays | 0 | 0% | 0.00 |
| Self-catering stays | Hotel stays | 2 | 67% | 5.19 |
| Self-catering stays | Functions & parties | 0 | 0% | 0.00 |
| Self-catering stays | Breakfast | 0 | 0% | 0.00 |
| Self-catering stays | Private dining | 0 | 0% | 0.00 |
| Self-catering stays | Hotel function rooms | 1 | 33% | 3.23 |
| Self-catering stays | Wedding catering | 0 | 0% | 0.00 |
| Self-catering stays | Sunday lunch & roasts | 0 | 0% | 0.00 |
| Self-catering stays | Afternoon tea | 0 | 0% | 0.00 |
| Self-catering stays | Room service | 0 | 0% | 0.00 |
| Self-catering stays | Seafood restaurant | 0 | 0% | 0.00 |
| Self-catering stays | Set menus | 0 | 0% | 0.00 |
| Hotel stays | Self-catering stays | 2 | 1% | 5.19 |
| Hotel stays | Hotel stays | 0 | 0% | 0.00 |
| Hotel stays | Functions & parties | 24 | 13% | 1.14 |
| Hotel stays | Breakfast | 22 | 12% | 1.29 |
| Hotel stays | Private dining | 23 | 13% | 1.17 |
| Hotel stays | Hotel function rooms | 23 | 13% | 1.23 |
| Hotel stays | Wedding catering | 20 | 11% | 1.20 |
| Hotel stays | Sunday lunch & roasts | 15 | 8% | 1.01 |
| Hotel stays | Afternoon tea | 17 | 9% | 1.08 |
| Hotel stays | Room service | 13 | 7% | 1.10 |
| Hotel stays | Seafood restaurant | 13 | 7% | 1.06 |
| Hotel stays | Set menus | 10 | 5% | 0.98 |
| Functions & parties | Self-catering stays | 0 | 0% | 0.00 |
| Functions & parties | Hotel stays | 24 | 15% | 1.14 |
| Functions & parties | Functions & parties | 0 | 0% | 0.00 |
| Functions & parties | Breakfast | 18 | 11% | 1.17 |
| Functions & parties | Private dining | 22 | 13% | 1.24 |
| Functions & parties | Hotel function rooms | 19 | 12% | 1.12 |
| Functions & parties | Wedding catering | 18 | 11% | 1.20 |
| Functions & parties | Sunday lunch & roasts | 16 | 10% | 1.19 |
| Functions & parties | Afternoon tea | 15 | 9% | 1.05 |
| Functions & parties | Room service | 11 | 7% | 1.03 |
| Functions & parties | Seafood restaurant | 11 | 7% | 1.00 |
| Functions & parties | Set menus | 10 | 6% | 1.09 |
| Breakfast | Self-catering stays | 0 | 0% | 0.00 |
| Breakfast | Hotel stays | 22 | 17% | 1.29 |
| Breakfast | Functions & parties | 18 | 14% | 1.17 |
| Breakfast | Breakfast | 0 | 0% | 0.00 |
| Breakfast | Private dining | 15 | 11% | 1.04 |
| Breakfast | Hotel function rooms | 16 | 12% | 1.17 |
| Breakfast | Wedding catering | 15 | 11% | 1.23 |
| Breakfast | Sunday lunch & roasts | 12 | 9% | 1.10 |
| Breakfast | Afternoon tea | 13 | 10% | 1.13 |
| Breakfast | Room service | 7 | 5% | 0.81 |
| Breakfast | Seafood restaurant | 8 | 6% | 0.90 |
| Breakfast | Set menus | 7 | 5% | 0.94 |
| Private dining | Self-catering stays | 0 | 0% | 0.00 |
| Private dining | Hotel stays | 23 | 15% | 1.17 |
| Private dining | Functions & parties | 22 | 14% | 1.24 |
| Private dining | Breakfast | 15 | 10% | 1.04 |
| Private dining | Private dining | 0 | 0% | 0.00 |
| Private dining | Hotel function rooms | 16 | 10% | 1.01 |
| Private dining | Wedding catering | 16 | 10% | 1.14 |
| Private dining | Sunday lunch & roasts | 14 | 9% | 1.12 |
| Private dining | Afternoon tea | 15 | 10% | 1.13 |
| Private dining | Room service | 11 | 7% | 1.11 |
| Private dining | Seafood restaurant | 12 | 8% | 1.17 |
| Private dining | Set menus | 9 | 6% | 1.05 |
| Hotel function rooms | Self-catering stays | 1 | 1% | 3.23 |
| Hotel function rooms | Hotel stays | 23 | 16% | 1.23 |
| Hotel function rooms | Functions & parties | 19 | 13% | 1.12 |
| Hotel function rooms | Breakfast | 16 | 11% | 1.17 |
| Hotel function rooms | Private dining | 16 | 11% | 1.01 |
| Hotel function rooms | Hotel function rooms | 0 | 0% | 0.00 |
| Hotel function rooms | Wedding catering | 15 | 10% | 1.12 |
| Hotel function rooms | Sunday lunch & roasts | 12 | 8% | 1.00 |
| Hotel function rooms | Afternoon tea | 14 | 10% | 1.10 |
| Hotel function rooms | Room service | 10 | 7% | 1.05 |
| Hotel function rooms | Seafood restaurant | 11 | 8% | 1.12 |
| Hotel function rooms | Set menus | 9 | 6% | 1.10 |
| Wedding catering | Self-catering stays | 0 | 0% | 0.00 |
| Wedding catering | Hotel stays | 20 | 15% | 1.20 |
| Wedding catering | Functions & parties | 18 | 14% | 1.20 |
| Wedding catering | Breakfast | 15 | 12% | 1.23 |
| Wedding catering | Private dining | 16 | 12% | 1.14 |
| Wedding catering | Hotel function rooms | 15 | 12% | 1.12 |
| Wedding catering | Wedding catering | 0 | 0% | 0.00 |
| Wedding catering | Sunday lunch & roasts | 10 | 8% | 0.94 |
| Wedding catering | Afternoon tea | 14 | 11% | 1.24 |
| Wedding catering | Room service | 7 | 5% | 0.83 |
| Wedding catering | Seafood restaurant | 7 | 5% | 0.80 |
| Wedding catering | Set menus | 8 | 6% | 1.10 |
| Sunday lunch & roasts | Self-catering stays | 0 | 0% | 0.00 |
| Sunday lunch & roasts | Hotel stays | 15 | 13% | 1.01 |
| Sunday lunch & roasts | Functions & parties | 16 | 14% | 1.19 |
| Sunday lunch & roasts | Breakfast | 12 | 10% | 1.10 |
| Sunday lunch & roasts | Private dining | 14 | 12% | 1.12 |
| Sunday lunch & roasts | Hotel function rooms | 12 | 10% | 1.00 |
| Sunday lunch & roasts | Wedding catering | 10 | 9% | 0.94 |
| Sunday lunch & roasts | Sunday lunch & roasts | 0 | 0% | 0.00 |
| Sunday lunch & roasts | Afternoon tea | 10 | 9% | 0.99 |
| Sunday lunch & roasts | Room service | 10 | 9% | 1.33 |
| Sunday lunch & roasts | Seafood restaurant | 10 | 9% | 1.28 |
| Sunday lunch & roasts | Set menus | 7 | 6% | 1.08 |
| Afternoon tea | Self-catering stays | 0 | 0% | 0.00 |
| Afternoon tea | Hotel stays | 17 | 14% | 1.08 |
| Afternoon tea | Functions & parties | 15 | 12% | 1.05 |
| Afternoon tea | Breakfast | 13 | 11% | 1.13 |
| Afternoon tea | Private dining | 15 | 12% | 1.13 |
| Afternoon tea | Hotel function rooms | 14 | 11% | 1.10 |
| Afternoon tea | Wedding catering | 14 | 11% | 1.24 |
| Afternoon tea | Sunday lunch & roasts | 10 | 8% | 0.99 |
| Afternoon tea | Afternoon tea | 0 | 0% | 0.00 |
| Afternoon tea | Room service | 9 | 7% | 1.13 |
| Afternoon tea | Seafood restaurant | 8 | 7% | 0.97 |
| Afternoon tea | Set menus | 8 | 7% | 1.17 |
| Room service | Self-catering stays | 0 | 0% | 0.00 |
| Room service | Hotel stays | 13 | 14% | 1.10 |
| Room service | Functions & parties | 11 | 12% | 1.03 |
| Room service | Breakfast | 7 | 8% | 0.81 |
| Room service | Private dining | 11 | 12% | 1.11 |
| Room service | Hotel function rooms | 10 | 11% | 1.05 |
| Room service | Wedding catering | 7 | 8% | 0.83 |
| Room service | Sunday lunch & roasts | 10 | 11% | 1.33 |
| Room service | Afternoon tea | 9 | 10% | 1.13 |
| Room service | Room service | 0 | 0% | 0.00 |
| Room service | Seafood restaurant | 9 | 10% | 1.46 |
| Room service | Set menus | 5 | 5% | 0.97 |
| Seafood restaurant | Self-catering stays | 0 | 0% | 0.00 |
| Seafood restaurant | Hotel stays | 13 | 14% | 1.06 |
| Seafood restaurant | Functions & parties | 11 | 12% | 1.00 |
| Seafood restaurant | Breakfast | 8 | 8% | 0.90 |
| Seafood restaurant | Private dining | 12 | 13% | 1.17 |
| Seafood restaurant | Hotel function rooms | 11 | 12% | 1.12 |
| Seafood restaurant | Wedding catering | 7 | 7% | 0.80 |
| Seafood restaurant | Sunday lunch & roasts | 10 | 11% | 1.28 |
| Seafood restaurant | Afternoon tea | 8 | 8% | 0.97 |
| Seafood restaurant | Room service | 9 | 9% | 1.46 |
| Seafood restaurant | Seafood restaurant | 0 | 0% | 0.00 |
| Seafood restaurant | Set menus | 6 | 6% | 1.13 |
| Set menus | Self-catering stays | 0 | 0% | 0.00 |
| Set menus | Hotel stays | 10 | 13% | 0.98 |
| Set menus | Functions & parties | 10 | 13% | 1.09 |
| Set menus | Breakfast | 7 | 9% | 0.94 |
| Set menus | Private dining | 9 | 11% | 1.05 |
| Set menus | Hotel function rooms | 9 | 11% | 1.10 |
| Set menus | Wedding catering | 8 | 10% | 1.10 |
| Set menus | Sunday lunch & roasts | 7 | 9% | 1.08 |
| Set menus | Afternoon tea | 8 | 10% | 1.17 |
| Set menus | Room service | 5 | 6% | 0.97 |
| Set menus | Seafood restaurant | 6 | 8% | 1.13 |
| Set menus | Set menus | 0 | 0% | 0.00 |
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.
Is this what they do, or one of many things they do?
A positioning note on record for 53 of 172 Accommodation organisations (31%)
On record for 31% — indicative| How central is it? | Organisations | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Core to the business | 33 | 62% |
| One of many services | 24 | 45% |
| A sideline | 22 | 42% |
| This is what they do | 16 | 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 92 of 172 — indicative, so the chart is drawn and badged rather than quoted.
Rooms — Accommodation
Rooms on record for 92 of 172 Accommodation organisations (53%)
On record for 53% — indicative| Rooms | Organisations | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1–5 rooms | 36 | 39% |
| 6–15 rooms | 16 | 17% |
| 16–40 rooms | 29 | 32% |
| 41+ rooms | 11 | 12% |
Verified from published evidence; businesses without a web presence are under-represented.
A further 2 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 ⧉65% of Accommodation organisations have a website of their own
Against 67% island-wide — 2 points below the island rate, mid-table on own-site rate: 10th 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.
Digital presence, this sector and the island
Counted over all 172 active Accommodation organisations
The right-hand column is the gap between accommodation and the island; both values are in the table view. Measured in share of organisations.
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.
| Sector against island | Accommodation | The island | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Has a website | 65% | 67% | −2% |
| Website on a .gg domain | 13% | 27% | −14% |
| Links a social account of any kind | 40% | 50% | −10% |
| Links a Facebook page | 39% | 47% | −8% |
| Links an Instagram account | 23% | 23% | +0% |
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.
Gaps
#gaps ⧉What this chapter cannot yet say
These modules are on record for too few of the 172 organisations counted here to draw. A blank is deliberate: the module reports its base rather than a number it cannot stand behind.
- Founding years38 of 172 on record
- Opening hours25 of 172 on record
Newly verified
#pulse ⧉The last 90 days
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.
How this chapter counts
#method ⧉The bases every figure here divides by
This chapter counts over the 172 active organisations whose primary sector is Accommodation — 5% of the 3,539 with a primary sector on record; the wider 175 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 132, a founding year for 38, 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 30 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 →