Destination Germany remains heading in the right direction for fulfillment, with excellent growth within the volume of overnight stays by international visitors providing much of the momentum. In 2012 the German Federal Statistical Office recorded in way over 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 large acclaim for Destination Germany, that is 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 and so they have played an incredible role on this new record result for inbound tourism in Germany. If the most source markets continue to accomplish strongly, we can 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 accordance with a UNWTO survey, growth in inbound tourism for Destination Germany remains well above the worldwide and European average.