Press release: 12.718
Tourism 2021: Almost one fifth fewer nights spent than in 2020, 48% fewer than in 2019
Vienna, 2022
"Corona-related tourist accommodation closures and international travel restrictions continued to have a strong impact on tourism in Austria in 2021: At just under 80 million, the number of nights spent was 18.7% below the value of the first pandemic year 2020 and 48% or 73 million nights spent below the pre-crisis year 2019," says Statistics Austria Director General Tobias Thomas.
The overall decline is largely due to the months of closures (January to May and November 2021), with 85.6% fewer nights spent during these periods. In the remaining period – without closures (June to October and December) – the decline was 16.8%.
Overall, the number of nights spent by non-resident guests fell by 24.6% to 49.97 million. Nights spent by guests from Germany, the most important market, fell by 16.6% to 32.10 million in 2021. Guests from the Netherlands spent 41.4% less nights in Austria, those from Switzerland and Liechtenstein 36.6% less.
Nights spent by resident guests fell by 6.3% to 29.60 million, which is 1.99 million below the 2020 value.
Number of nights spent developed differently from region to region year-on-year
The decline compared to 2020 was very different in
the individual federal states. While in federal states such as Burgenland
More than two-thirds fewer nights spent in Vienna than in 2019, one-fifth fewer in Burgenland
Nights spent in Vienna were 71.6% below the pre-pandemic
year 2019 level; also in Salzburg
Overall, nights spent in 2021 were 73.1 million below
the 2019 level, whereas the highest absolute losses were observed in
Tyrol
The decline in nights spent among resident guests
was around a quarter
Significant increase in nights spent in December 2021 compared to the previous year
In December 2021, the second month of the winter tourist season, 6.12 million overnight stays in Austrian hotels, guesthouses and holiday apartments were recorded. This corresponds to an increase in nights spent of more than eight times or 5.37 million compared to the same month last year (747 500), in which all tourist accommodation was closed due to the lockdown. Nights spent by foreign guests reached 4.76 million (2020: 223 000), those by domestic guests 1.36 million (2020: 524 500).
The number of arrivals has increased accordingly, from 148 000 in December 2020 to 1.47 million in December 2021.
Winter season so far above last year, but well below 2019
In the current winter season 2021/22 (November and December 2021), with 9.39 million nights spent significantly more were registered than in the same period of the previous year. The number of guests also increased almost sevenfold to 2.49 million.
Compared to the first third of the 2019/20 winter
season (November and December 2019), nights spent were almost half
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