Tourism: Trend for High-Price Segment Continues

CompaniesRetail & Consumer ♦ Published: March 3, 2011; 00:07 ♦ (Vindobona)

Austria's tourism industry shows itself satisfied with the current winter season. Guests come increasingly from Eastern Europe.

Tourism: Trend for High-Price Segment Continues / Picture: © Tourism Austria

Winter has so far been satisfactory for the hotel industry, January in particular contributed to good overnight stays: 14.39m (+3.7%) overnight stays were recorded in the first month of the year. Mathias Koch of the Hotel Industry Association says: "It is gratifying that the industry has been able to reach again the pre-crisis level."

Also striking is the increasing shift of…