Tourism

Germany is popular with tourists as never

The Boom in the Germany-tourism has 2015 continues. The past year brought the sixth Übernachtungsrekord in a row. This is primarily due to guests from abroad.

Holiday in Germany is becoming more and more popular. The number of Overnight stays of domestic and foreign guests between Flensburg and Oberstdorf has 2015, reached a new high. Hotels, pensions, youth hostels, cottages and camping sites counted a total of 436,4 million Overnight stays and, thus, three percent more than in 2014, as the Federal Statistical office on Thursday in Wiesbaden announced. It was the sixth increase in a row.

The number of Overnight stays of foreign guests put 2015 by five percent to 79,7 million to the guests from the home country to two percent on 356,7 million. In the statistics, only Hotels, pensions and other collective accommodation establishments with at least ten bed-places.

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The upward trend will continue

“The sixth record year in a row is a great success,” said Reinhard Meyer, President of the German tourism Association (DTV), consequently, the upward trend will continue: “The early signs for 2016 are good. The Urlaubslust the German is still high, most Germans want their holidays back in their own country.” Meyer expects therefore that, year-on-year to surpass.

One reason could be that the world around Germany become unsafe. So have the terrorist attacks in Europe’s second-largest tour operator Thomas Cook traces. A part of the customer to have his holiday plans because of the uncertainty was postponed, said chief Executive Peter Fankhauser in London. The organizer, in Germany especially with the brand Neckermann travel and the airline Condor is represented, now anticipates a shift toward Last-Minute travel. To be now of all summer Offerings, only 29 percent sold – two percentage points fewer than a year earlier. Fankhauser expects, however, that the demand for Turkey holidays quickly picks up again. The world’s largest travel group Tui had on Tuesday for the country on the Bosporus, a Buchungsrückgang to 40 percent compared to the previous year ago.

zdh/hb (dpa, afp, rtr)