World Tourism Day 2011: Guests from 50 Countries Visit Austria

CompaniesRetail & Consumer ♦ Published: September 26, 2011; 17:24 ♦ (Vindobona)

According to statistics Austria, the diversification of the guest´s nationalities further increased. Culture-oriented travels become increasingly important.

World Tourism Day 2011: Guests from 50 Countries Visit Austria / Picture: © Vindobona.org

Guests from about 50 different countries of origin are visiting Austria. The major part comes from EU-countries (84%), which are 33.4m guests. The diversification is substantially higher than in the past. In 1980, 45% of all visitors came from Germany. The share of German tourists went down to 32%.

On the other side, tourists from Japan grew from 61.400 to 213.600, those from…