Holiday in Austria is clearly not that popular this year: the number of bookings for overnight stays was a tenth in May with 8.4 million than in April. Especially the holidaymakers from Germany missed at home in tourism.
However, the booking minus goes back to the fact that Pentecost and Corpus Christi did not fall until June of this year, the Austria statistics said on Friday.
In May, the Austrian tourism companies registered 2.47 million overnight stays from Germany, about third less than in the previous year. Guests from the Netherlands, the second most important origin market, spent slightly more than a tenth less in this country than in May 2024.
More holidaymakers from the US.
On the other hand, there was a plus for US guests: here the nights rose by almost eight percent to 214,500. In this way, the United States took third place in the ranking of most overnight stays abroad in May 2025 – behind Germany and Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
In general, the overnight stays of holidaymakers from abroad fell by 17 percent to 5.17 million. Compared to May 2024, the overnight stay from Austria also fell by almost two percent to 3.23 million.
Fewer overnight stays will stay this year
In the previous calendar year January to May there was also a min. 62.58 million overnight stays meant a decrease of 2.2 percent compared to the same period last year. The statistics registered a minus of 2.9 percent for foreign guests, and the number remained around the level of the previous year (plus 0.1 percent) for domestic guests. The number of arrivals remained largely unchanged at 17.73 million (min 0.1 percent). Of these, 12.44 million arrivals on guests from abroad, which corresponds to the value of the previous year.
Source: Krone
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