There were 229 hotels and guesthouses operating in Cape Verde in 2014, up by 3.2 percent in year-on-year terms, according to data reported on Wednesday by the country’s National Statistics Institute.

Those hotels and guesthouses offered a total of 10,839 rooms, an increase of 19.7 percent compared with a year before.

The country’s hotel industry employed a total of 6,282 people in 2014, 9.2 percent more than a year earlier.

Almost all hotels and guesthouses offered landline phone services to guests, but only 43.2 percent had wireless Internet services. More than half included at least a bar and/or restaurant in their facilities.