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Less tourists come to Dresden

Dresden is with tourists unpopular, the number of Overnight stays in 2015 has decreased significantly. The tourism industry makes to the image of the populist Pegida movement responsible.

For the first time after six years of growth are the tourist Numbers for the city of Dresden is declining. In the past year, Overnight stays decreased by three per cent to 4.3 million, in arrivals, there was a decrease of 2.3 percent.

Bettina Bunge, managing Director of Dresden Marketing GmbH (DMG), said on Tuesday of a “Pegida-effect” and a loss of image for the capital of Saxony due to the xenophobic slogans. The also have a representative brand study showed. “People have grown up in the period of time consciously against a Dresden-visit and decided to your personal or business trip is cancelled, as organisers and industry knowledge,” said Bunge. Especially for guests from the country makes is, accordingly, the restraint effect, by 2015, the number of their Overnight stays by 5.1 per cent to around 3.4 million.

For tourists from abroad have laid the Nights in the same period of time. The number of Overnight stays rose by 6.1 percent to a total of around 879.000. To the most important foreign markets include the USA, Switzerland and Austria. By contrast, the Overnight stays from Russia because of the Rubelverfalls and the economic crisis to nearly 28 percent. 2015 was for all a difficult year to have been admitted Bunge. The more important was, that Dresden is a cosmopolitan city position.

at / is (dpa)