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The Swiss hotel industry has finally overcome the collapse caused by the corona pandemic: local hotels set a new guest record last year. They surpassed the 40 million mark for the first time with 41.8 million overnight stays, the Federal Statistical Office (BFS) announced on Thursday.
With the new record, Swiss hotels exceeded the previous record of 39.6 million in 2019. In the months from April to December, BFS recorded more overnight stays than at any time in the last three decades. After the record season in the winter 2022/2023 (November-April), a new record was reached with 24.0 million overnight stays in the summer season 2023 (May-October).
The hotel industry owes its record figures to the return of foreign tourists. Your number of overnight stays increased by almost 22 percent in all of 2023, reaching 20.9 million. Asian guests made the biggest contribution to the increase in foreign demand in 2023, with a total of 4.1 million overnight stays. That’s 1.5 million more than a year ago. However, the 2019 level was not reached. Additionally, almost a quarter of the guests are still missing, BFS wrote.
The biggest increase was provided by guests from China. With 495,000 nights stayed, they booked more than three times as many nights as the previous year. This was followed by South Korea (+151 percent) and India (+59 percent). Demand from Gulf countries also increased (+3.6 percent).
Despite these significant increases, demand from Asian guests remained below 2019 levels; The difference was particularly pronounced among Chinese guests (-65 percent).
In Germany, the most important country of origin, demand increased by 4.2 percent to 3.8 million nightly stays. Americans rose to second place, increasing the number of overnight stays by a third to 3.1 million.
“The North American miracle made us happy,” said Martin Nydegger, Switzerland Tourism Director, in his statement to the press in Kilchberg. The economy in the United States was strong. Americans purchased large numbers of general tourist season tickets. “We continue to assume we can maintain the Silver Surfers’ loyal band of guests.”
Behind them, British also showed a strong increase of almost a quarter to 1.7 million stay nights. The number of overnight stays of French people increased by 6.6 percent to 1.4 million. This makes them the fourth most important group of guests.
On the other hand, the number of domestic guests decreased slightly by 1.1 percent to 20.8 million. However, the BFS wrote that the level among residents was still too high: “Higher values were observed only in 2021 and 2022.” (SDA/month)
Source :Blick
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