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Vienna overnight numbers up

Viennese hotels had a good start to the new year as overnight figures were up nine per cent year on year in January, it emerged today (Thurs).

Tourism officials in the capital said there were 604,000 overnights in Vienna last month, up by nine per cent compared to January 2009.

The most significant raise was recorded for guests from Serbia with a 80 per cent year on year increase. Vienna tourism authorities said 7,300 overnights by people from the country were registered last month, a development linked to the EU�s decision to lift the visa requirement for people from Serbia, Macedonia and Montenegro last December.

January 2010 statistics also showed a 22 per cent year on year increase for German guests.

Meanwhile fewer Romanians and Americans stayed in Vienna last month.

City officials said the overnight figures for people from Romania declined 30 per cent year on year, while the rate of overnights by US citizens was down by seven per cent in January compared to the same month in 2009.

This comes days after international online hotel listings platform Trivago said there was a drop in Viennese hotel room prices this month.

Trivago announced last week prices for rooms in the city were down by 12 per cent in February 2010 to an average of 97 Euros per night compared to the same month last year.

The website compares hotel prices in countries all over the world with its Trivago Hotel Price Index (THPI) every month.

Austrian Times

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