tourism
The upward trend in Vienna tourism continues. Although nightly net sales in the previous year were already 87% of the pre-crisis 2019 level, the trend continued in January 2023.
21.02.2023 10.44
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After years of restrictions due to the virus, people are clearly interested in travelling: more overnight stays were booked in Vienna last January than in January 2019. A total of 1.058 million overnight stays were booked. That topped the 2019 comparative figure by five percent, as announced by Vienna Tourism on Tuesday.
17 of Vienna’s 30 night markets were already above that mark in January. With 216,000 overnight stays (+146%), Austria tops the list of top 10 markets in January, followed by Germany (176,000, +243%), Italy (81,000, +656%), USA (45,000, +285%), Great Britain (40,000, +562%), Spain (36,000, +252%), Ukraine (29,000, +135%), Israel (29,000, +282%), France (28,000, +197%) and Greece (25,000 , +280%).
Up 239 percent from January 2022
January 2020 has not yet been reached. January’s year-over-year gain was up 239%. However, the lockdown measures were still valid across Austria in 2022. Hotels’ net overnight turnover for December 2022 has also already been determined. In purely arithmetic terms, there was an increase of 377% compared to 2021, to 125.4 million euros. However: compared to December 2019, this also means an increase of 7.2%. For the year 2022, accommodation turnover was 884.3 million euros. That’s 87% of the 2019 level.
The average occupancy of hotel beds in January was 42.8% (1/2022: 14.3%), that of rooms around 54% (1/2022: around 18%). A total of around 69,000 hotel beds were available in Vienna in January, around 11,000 more beds than were offered in January 2021.