Press release: 12.654
Economic importance of tourism varies from region to region; three federal provinces are above the Austrian average in 2018
Vienna, 2021
The main regions of tourism consumption are in Tyrol, Vienna and Salzburg
In Austria €35.78 bn were spent on holiday and business trips by resident and non-resident same-day visitors and overnight tourists, of which around three-fifths (59.1% or €21.15 bn) were spent in Tyrol, Vienna and Salzburg. The three federal provinces with the highest number of overnight stays record tourist expenditure of €8.33 bn (Tyrol), €7.18 bn (Vienna) and €5.64 bn (Salzburg). While Carinthia has more overnight stays than Burgenland and Styria, total tourism consumption in Styria is €3.49 bn, in Carinthia €2.51 bn and in Burgenland €1.01 bn. In Lower Austria and Upper Austria, tourism consumption by resident and non-resident guests amounts to €2.87 bn and €2.76 bn, respectively.
In four federal provinces, more than half of the tourism consumption is generated by resident guests
In Austria, a total of 43.5% of total tourism consumption was made by resident same-day visitors and overnight tourists (including spending in Austria for trips abroad).
The analysis by federal provinces shows that in Burgenland (78.3%), in Styria (64.7%) as well as in Lower and Upper Austria (62.5% and 62.0%, respectively) significantly more than half of the tourism consumption is generated by resident tourists (see Table 1).
In Burgenland a third of the tourism consumption comes from same-day visitors
The tourism consumption of same-day visitors accounts for €7.38 bn ore one fifth (20.6%) of the total Austria-wide consumption in tourism. Burgenland is well above the Austrian average with a same-day visitor consumption share of 33.6%, followed by Lower and Upper Austria with 27.8% and 25.3%, respectively. With 16.9% Tyrol has the lowest share.
In Vienna, Lower and Upper Austria, an above-average amount is spent on passenger transport
An analysis of the consumption structure according to the goods and services consumed shows that in Carinthia (54.1%), Salzburg (53.3%) and Tyrol (57.5%) more than half of the total tourism consumption is spent on accommodation (excl. expenses for second homes) and restaurants, while the share in other federal provinces is between 37.7% (Vienna) and 49.7% (Burgenland; also corresponds to the Austrian average). In Vienna (27.9%) and in Lower and Upper Austria (23.6% and 24.1%, respectively), an above-average amount compared to Austria overall (18.9%) is spent on passenger transport (see Table 2).
The share of tourism in the gross regional product varies significantly between the federal provinces
Overall, tourism in Tyrol, Salzburg and Vienna, the federal provinces with the highest volume of tourism consumption, generates direct and indirect added value effects amounting to €5.91 bn, €3.93 bn and €4.71 bn, respectively. Due to the respective branch structures of these regions, the contribution to the gross regional product (GRP) is very different: 16.9% in Tyrol, 13.7% in Salzburg and 4.8% in Vienna. In Carinthia, Burgenland and Styria, total value-added effects triggered by tourism consumption are amounting to €1.69 bn, €0.61 bn and €2.26 bn, which corresponds to a GRP contribution of 8.0% (Carinthia), 6.8% (Burgenland) and 4.6% (Styria). In Upper and Lower Austria, tourism contributes €1.70 bn and €1.83 bn, directly and indirectly, which is 2.6% and 3.0% to the respective – primarily production-oriented – regional economy (see Table 3).
Share of full-time jobs attributable to tourism is between 3.2% and 16.3%
In 2018, between 7 600 jobs in Burgenland and 57 600 full-time equivalents in Tyrol were directly and indirectly attributable to tourism in the eight federal states. In terms of total regional employment, tourism in Tyrol (16.3%), Salzburg (13.6%) and Carinthia (8.6%) is above average (Austria average 7.9%). The federal capital of Vienna, on the other hand, has a tourism employment share of 5.4% and is thus similar to Styria (5.3%). While the tourism employment share in Burgenland is 6.9%, in Lower Austria and Upper Austria the share accounts for 3.6% and 3.2% of total regional employment (see Table 3).
Further information on the tourism satellite account (TSA) and fact sheets on the individual federal provinces can be found on the Statistics Austria website under "Tourism satellite account" and on the WIFO website.
Methodological
information:
The Tourism Satellite Account (TSA) has been implemented since
the reporting year 2000 in a joint project by Statistics
Austria (STAT) and the Austrian Institute for Economic Research
Institute (WIFO) on behalf of the Federal
Ministry for Agriculture, Regions and Tourism (BMLRT). With the TSA
the interrelation of the tourism industry with other economic sectors
and the dimension of the tourist consumption expenditure of resident
and non-resident guests in Austria can be made clear.
The TSA is based on the methodological principles
recommended by UNWTO, OECD and Eurostat (Tourism
Satellite Account: Recommended Methodological Framework 2008;
TSA: RMF2008); this largely ensures the international comparability
of the calculations on the economic importance of tourism in the countries.
Conventional tourism statistics, mostly "accommodation statistics"
collecting overnight stays in commercial and private accommodation establishments,
cannot or only partially show the diversity and multi-disciplinarity
of "tourism", as only a few aspects of tourism are recorded.
- The "tourist" occurs only partially and is not integrated
as a statistical reference value, since the full range of tourist behaviour
- e.g. same-day trips or visiting relatives or friends - is not considered
and only the physical, but not the monetary aspect is considered. On
the supply side, the situation with regard to tourism is rather the
same, since the statistical basis is more extensive, but the components
(e.g. accommodation and catering) cannot or only partially be combined
to show overall tourism based on tourism statistical data (e.g. overnight
stays and turnover).
Due to the inadequate statistical data collection related to tourism,
model-like approaches that go beyond traditional statistics can provide
information about overall tourism. A comprehensive statistical recording
of the phenomenon "tourism" can only be achieved via "tourism-economic
accounts" or "satellite systems"
to the "National Accounts"
(NA), therefore, which represent tourism in all its dimensions on the
basis of NA-related accounts trying to integrate the tourist supply
side with the demand side (or vice versa). Accordingly, the TSA represents
a macroeconomic and not a microeconomic model, and the TSA results are
providing global and benchmark figures which do not allow or only a
limited analysis on a small-scale level.
The compilation of "TSA for Austria and federal provinces"
requires a large number of data sources.
In principle, data from Statistics Austria and external institutions
(or a combination of both) are used; in addition, administrative data
and, if necessary, individual information (e.g. annual business reports)
are used. The available sources are often different related to terms
and definitions as well as the underlying unit concept. These are either
transformed in such a way that they can be used immediately for the
TSA calculations or serve as the basis for estimates and assumptions,
respectively, on which they are based.
Starting with the reporting year 2000, Statistics
Austria and the WIFO developed
a TSA for Austria. For some time now, both institutes have also been
compiling Regional TSAs (RTSA) for some
Austrian Länder (Burgenland, Lower Austria, Upper Austria and Vienna);
starting with the reference year 2018, RTSAs are now being drawn up
for eight Austrian Länder, which allows for the first time the development
of a nationwide consistent tourism satellite system considering in addition
the national TSA for Austria.
With regard to the work to be carried out,
STAT is responsible for the creation of the base satellite and the TSA
standard tables in accordance with TSA:RMF 2008, whereby this only includes
the direct effects (added value and employment). - WIFO provides estimates
regarding the indirect effects of tourism (value added and employment),
estimates for the current year and the following year (in addition and
if necessary, the direct and indirect effects of the leisure industry
are estimated).
Further information on the methodology can be found in the "Standard-Dokumentation
zum Tourismus-Satellitenkonto
für Österreich" (in German only).
For further inquiries please contact
Directorate Spatial Statistics, Statistics Austria:
Peter LAIMER, Tel.:
Ines ORSOLIC, Tel.:
Media owner, producer and publisher:
STATISTICS AUSTRIA, Federal Institution under Public Law
1110 Vienna, Austria, Guglgasse 13, Tel.:
presse@statistik.gv.at
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