The accommodation establishments recorded around 19.2 million overnight stays from May to June this year, according to preliminary data from Statistics Austria from today, Wednesday. According to the information, this was only 4.5 percent less than in the same period in 2019 (20.1 million) and was only just below the level of 2018 (19.3 million).
“This means that the overnight stay records from May/June 2019 and 2018 were almost reached again in this year’s summer pre-season,” confirmed Statistics Austria Director General Tobias Thomas. The first third of the summer half-year this year was the third strongest since records began.
The number of overnight stays by guests from Germany increased by 6.5 percent to 7.2 million compared to the pre-corona level of 2019. This corresponds to a share of 37.6 percent of the total bookings. Bookings from abroad fell by 10.1 percent to 11.95 million over the two-year period.
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With 12 million overnight stays, the majority of bookings were made in June alone. That was 60.6 percent more than in June 2021 and almost as many as in June 2019, i.e. before Corona, with 12.6 million overnight stays.
In all federal states except Lower Austria, there was an increase in overnight stays by domestic guests at the start of the season compared to 2019. At the same time, bookings by foreign holidaymakers fell everywhere except in Vorarlberg.
In the entire first half of 2022, however, the number of overnight stays was 62.5 million, 18.1 percent below the level before the corona pandemic – between January and June 2019 around 76.4 million nights were booked. The first half of 2021, which at 14.1 million had the lowest number of overnight stays since records began, was far exceeded this year.
Source: Nachrichten
