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....
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