PRESS RELEASE: 9.748-190/10

First half of the tourism summer season 2010: +1.4% in nights spent; arrivals reach 8.79 million

Vienna, 2010-08-25 – The first three months of the current summer season 2010 close with a rise in overnights of 1.4% to 29.78 million, according to the latest available data from Statistics Austria. Arrivals rose by 5.3% and reached an all time high of 8.79 million. Responsible for the increasing figures in overnights was the considerable rise in overnights of resident (+2.8% to 4.31 million) and non-resident visitors (+2.2% to 10.55 million) in July 2010.

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