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Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - Tourism in Baden-Württemberg fell back to the level of decades ago in the so-called summer half-year between May and October.

The number of arriving guests shrank year-on-year by 42.9 percent to 8.0 million, the number of overnight stays by 34.1 percent to 22.8 million, as the State Statistical Office in Stuttgart announced on Tuesday.

The last time there were fewer guests in a summer half-year in the southwest was 1997, and statisticians have never recorded fewer overnight stays in this period since reunification.

It is noticeable that the Lake Constance region had to cope with a far less severe decline than other places in the south-west.

Hoteliers in the Black Forest, the Swabian Alb and the Stuttgart region were harder hit.

The industry experienced its low point in tourism in the lockdown month of April, when the number of guests (minus 94 percent) and overnight stays (minus 88.3 percent) fell particularly sharply.

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Until the Corona crisis, the southwest tourism industry had booked several record years in a row.

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Ministry of Tourism inform ation about 390 000 jobs of this industry from the last tourism generated thus an annual turnover of more than 25 billion euros.

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