Domestic tourism has almost completely recovered from the pandemic. With 69.29 million overnight stays, the 2022/23 winter season (November to April) was almost as well booked as in the last corona-free winter of 2018/19. This is the result of preliminary data from Statistics Austria from today, Friday. Compared to the same period last year, which was still affected by Covid restrictions, overnight stays increased by almost a third (31.4 percent) this year.
The number of guest arrivals increased in the period from November 2022 to April 2013 compared to the previous year by 45.5 percent to 18.94 million. “Despite price increases, 69.29 million overnight stays in Austrian hotels, guesthouses and holiday apartments from November 2022 to April 2023 were the third highest in a winter season after the record winters of 2017/18 and 2018/19,” summarized Statistics Austria Director General Tobias Thomas. In concrete terms, the bookings for the tourist winter season that has just ended were only 3.63 million overnight stays or five percent below the previously recorded maximum value in the 2018/19 winter season (72.92 million) – in winter 2017/18 71.87 million overnight stays have been achieved.if(!apaResc)var apaResc=function(a){var e=window.addEventListener?”addEventListener”:”attachEvent”,t,n;(0,window[e])(“attachEvent”==e?”onmessage”:”message”,function(e){if(e.data[a]) for(var t=document.getElementsByClassName(a),n=0;n!=t.length;n++) t[n].style.height=e.data[a]+”px”},!1)}; apaResc(“apa-0771-23”);The majority of bookings (53.46 million) came from foreign holidaymakers in winter 2022/23 – an increase of almost 35 percent compared to the previous year. The number of overnight stays in Germany increased by 22 percent to 15.82 million. Compared to the previous winter, they increased by 25.8 percent to 25.73 million. In the case of the Netherlands, the second most important country of origin after Germany, there was an increase of 20 percent to 6.70 million overnight stays. Bookings from Switzerland and Liechtenstein rose by 58.7 to 1.87 million, those from Italy by 154.2 percent to 984,100.Prices continue to rise in view of inflation, which shows that demand from important countries of origin such as Germany, the Netherlands and some Great Britain is “fully back” and “that that is partly not true, that skiing is no longer so up to date,” said Secretary of State for Tourism Susanne Kraus-Winkler (ÖVP) in a press conference on Friday continue shooting this summer. “We assume that there will be an average of 10 percent again,” she said, with a view to the expected inflation in this area. Last summer there were already increases of an average of 13 to 14 percent in accommodation, and “slightly less” in catering. Growth in bookings also in Asia From the largest Asian market of origin, China, bookings increased again after two years this winter. The increase was around 211 percent to 89,600 overnight stays. In April, the last month of the tourist winter season, the number of overnight stays increased by 8.1 percent to 8.19 million compared to the same month last year. Of these, 5.78 million were travelers from abroad (up 10.6 percent) and 2.41 million were domestic guests (up 2.4 percent). The number of arrivals increased by 16 percent to 2.68 million.
