Germany: Overnight Stays Only 1.1% Below 2019 Levels in September
Tourists spent 47.2 million nights across all accommodation facilities in Germany during September, recording a 4.7 per cent increase compared to a year ago.
According to Destatis, the Federal Statistics Office, the number of overnight stays remains below pre-pandemic levels by 1.1 per cent, SchengenVisaInfo.com reports.
61 per cent of tourists spent their nights in hotels, followed by holiday and other short-stay accommodations (21 per cent), other accommodations related to tourism (ten per cent) and camping grounds (nine per cent).
“The figures refer to accommodation establishments with ten or more bed places and in tourist, campsites having ten or more pitches,” Destatis explains.
Despite the positive recovery of tourism in Germany in the post-pandemic period, the country is dealing with decreases in the sector.
Data from Statista shows that as of 2020, tourist accommodation spots generated the country €18.5 billion while in the following year, 50,912 establishments for tourists were estimated to be open across the country.
Deutsche Welle, the German media previously reported that medical tourism has recorded plunging decreases, with the number of Russian patients dropping by 30 per cent in 2020 alone. This corresponds with an increase in tourism noticed in Arabic countries.
Over 1,000 patients from different countries were receiving medical treatment at University Clinic Freiburg and this number dropped to 800 in 2021, with the countries of origin for these patients mainly being Ukraine and Russia.
Similarly, Berlin’s Vivantes hospital group, whose target was foreign patients, dealt with falling demand that made the unit no longer financially viable.
In 2020, nearly 1,000 non-EU citizens were treated there, from 1,200 per year recorded from 2016 to 2019. This decrease in medical tourism isn’t known if it will rebound in post-pandemic times or will depend on how the war in Ukraine will develop.
Consultancy-me reveals that medical tourism’s market value reached €105 billion in 2019, while in 2020 this reached a total of €180 billion. Data from the same source shows that the United States and the United Kingdom are the leading developing countries to obtain medical treatments, indicating that both Americans and Britons are headed towards health tourism.
During the pandemic, however, the interest in medical tourism dropped slightly. In 2021, the medical tourism market was valued at €82 billion, while in the following year, a study forecasted that it would reach the value of €97 billion.
In the next three years, the value of medical tourism is anticipated to significantly increase, reaching €120 billion within the first year with over 27 million patients.
