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Wiesbaden (dpa) - The Corona restrictions have drastically slowed domestic tourism in Germany in the first quarter.
The number of overnight stays by guests in the first three months of the current year was 22.6 million, more than two thirds (68.8 percent) below the figure for the same period in the previous year, as the Federal Statistical Office has calculated.
Above all, foreign guests stayed away, as the Wiesbaden authority announced on Monday.
In the case of visitors from abroad, hotels and guest houses recorded just 2.4 million overnight stays in the first quarter, a decrease of 81.1 percent over the year.
For domestic travelers, the number of 20.2 million overnight stays was 66.2 percent below the previous year.
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This year's March also brought no ray of hope for the industry: The decline in the number of overnight stays in that month was almost 43 percent more moderate than in January and February of this year with 76 percent each. However, this is explained by the fact that in March 2020 the Corona crisis had already fully affected Germany and a ban on accommodation for private guests at the time caused the number of overnight stays to plummet. Compared to the year before the crisis, the 9.1 million overnight stays in March 2021 meant a decrease of almost three quarters.
Tourist overnight stays were forbidden in March, as in the previous months.
Hotels, pensions or inns were only allowed to accept business travelers.
But the effort is apparently not worth it for many businesses: of the approximately 52,000 accommodation establishments recorded in the statistics, only 30,114 were open this March, according to the Federal Office.
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Federal Statistical Office on Domestic Tourism 3/2021