Domestic tourism got off to an impressive start this summer. In May, the number of overnight bookings in hotels, guesthouses and holiday apartments increased by 14.6 percent to 9.5 million compared to the same month last year. German holidaymakers in particular have booked en masse.
The numbers at the start of the season have never been so strong. “This is the highest number of overnight stays ever recorded for the month of May,” emphasizes Tobias Thomas, Managing Director of Statistics Austria. The increase in the number of bookings is also due to the fact that the Pentecost holidays in the large German states fell completely in May this year.
Germans love holidays in Austria
Two-thirds of overnight stays (6.2 million) were made by holidaymakers from abroad, which corresponds to a booking increase of 21.1 percent compared to the previous year. More than half of this (3.65 million) came from guests from Germany, who increased their bookings by almost a third (plus 30.4 percent) this year.
221,400 overnight stays by Dutch people
The second most important sales market for holidaymakers, the Netherlands, is far behind Germany: bookings there also rose noticeably by 11.4 percent to 221,400 overnight stays. There were also huge increases at a low level among the Chinese, whose bookings more than doubled from the same month last year to 57,800 nights (up 138.1 percent).
The number of guests increased by 13.6 percent to 3.5 million. About two-thirds (2.2 million) came from abroad (plus 17.9 percent), about a third (1.3 million) from Austria (plus 7 percent).
The number of overnight stays increased
In the calendar year to date to the end of May, overnight bookings were up 3.3 percent to 64 million (up 2.1 million) compared with the same period last year; those from abroad were up 3.7 percent to 49.1 million, those from within the country were up 3.7 percent. 2.2 percent to 14.9 million.
The number of guest arrivals increased by 5.6 percent to 17.7 million in the period January to May compared to the same period last year – from abroad by 6.3 percent to 12.4 million people (plus 6.3 per cent). Domestic to 5.3 million (plus 4 percent). ).
Source: Krone
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