Vienna reports increase in tourism arrivals
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Vienna registered 6.3 million visitor overnight stays between January and June – 5.4% more than for the same period the previous year.
According to data issued by the Vienna Tourist Board, the Austrian capital’s top five source markets in the first half of 2015 were Germany with 1,283,000 bed nights (+6% on the same period the previous year), followed by Austria (1,243,000, +7%), the USA (348,000, +9%), Italy (328,000, +13%), and the UK (237,000, +11%).
“Vienna demonstrated its tourist attraction in the first half of 2015 with an increase of 5.4% to some 6,330,000 visitor overnights,” said Norbert Kettner, the director of Vienna Tourist Board.
Vienna also reported particularly strong growth, compared to 2014, from South Korea (86,000 overnights, +29%), Serbia (79,000, +25%), Turkey (71,000, +28%), India (40,000, +41%) and Taiwan (36,000, +57%).
With the expansion of Vienna’s hotel accommodation between June 2014 and June 2015 – an increase of 3,700 to 63,800 beds – room occupancy rose from 65% to 66% over the same period.
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