Between March 15 and June 20 last year, foreign tourists traded an average of eight million a day in the county. Now that, in principle, all global travel has ceased during the corona pandemic, all consumption from foreign guests, called tourism exports, is also falling away.
In total, this amounts to SEK 742 million, which can be lost until midsummer, which is as much as the foreign tourists spent in Västerbotten during the same period last year.
- It is a killing blow to virtually all counties when one of Sweden's largest export industries is now on a total desert walk that is impossible to predict the length of. Every day that goes by, the situation becomes increasingly difficult, says Stefan Westerberg, senior economist at Stockholm Chamber of Commerce.
In total, in Sweden, this could be a loss of SEK 36 billion if the current situation persists throughout the period, according to the Chamber of Commerce.