Destination Germany remains on track for fulfillment, with excellent growth inside the volume of overnight stays by international visitors providing much of the momentum. In 2012 the German Federal Statistical Office recorded in far more than 68.8 million overnight stays by visitors from abroad in accommodation establishments with greater than ten beds, a rise of around 8 per cent at the previous year. “We have exceeded, by a transparent margin, the forecast volume of 400 million overnight stays from Germany and abroad. This emphatically underlines the massive acclaim for Destination Germany, that’s becoming increasingly attractive to people from other countries,” says Ernst Burgbacher, Member of the German Parliament, Parliamentary State Secretary on the Federal Ministry for Economics and Technology and Federal Government Commissioner for SMEs and Tourism.
Europe and the BRIC countries go from strength to strength
The German Federal Statistical Office recorded a complete of 68.8 million overnight stays by visitors from abroad in 2012, up 8 per cent at the previous year. The united kingdom market (visitors from the united kingdom to Germany) alone rose by 5.7%. “The European source markets and the BRIC countries are going from strength to strength they usually have played a primary role on this new record result for inbound tourism in Germany. If the most important source markets continue to accomplish strongly, we shall be on course to pass the 80 million mark in international overnight stays by 2020,” says Petra Hedorfer, Chief Executive Officer of the German National Tourist Board (GNTB). In response to a UNWTO survey, growth in inbound tourism for Destination Germany remains well above the worldwide and European average.