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Vienna overnights sharply up year on year

The Viennese tourism industry continues to boom as overnight figures stay up year on year.

Tourism officials announced today (Weds) hotels and pensions in the city registered 519,000 overnights last month, which is a 7.1 per cent year on year increase.

The number of overnights in January of this year was better with 604,000 overnights by Austrian and foreign guests. January figures meant a nine per cent year on year increase.

Authorities said today the number of Russian guests rose 23 per cent year on year, while 21 per cent more Italians and 19 per cent Germans visited Vienna last month than in February 2009.

The number of stays by guests from Great Britain, Switzerland, Austria and the US soared too.

The most drastic year on year decline was recorded for guests from Romania (21 per cent) and France (nine per cent).

It was also announced today that 36.2 per cent of available beds were occupied – a positive signal considering the 33.9 per cent rate from February 2009.

This figure means 45 per cent of rooms were booked compared to just 42 per cent in the same month of last year.

These announcements come just days after international online hotel rating platform Trivago said the average price for a hotel room in Vienna went up by two per cent this month to 116 Euros compared to March 2009.

The average price of hotel rooms in Europe meanwhile stayed constant at 102 Euros from February to March 2010, the website – which compares hotel prices in countries all over the world with its Trivago Hotel Price Index (THPI) every month – said.

Austrian Times

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