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Vienna overnights down

By Lisa Chapman

Overnight stay numbers dropped in the capital last month, tourism bosses in Vienna have reported.

The Vienna Tourism Office reported yesterday (Mon) the number of overnights in the city declined by 3.4 per cent year on year to 707,000 in November.

It added overnights in the first 11 months of the year had also declined by 4.5 per cent year on year to 8,925,000.

The office said four-star and lowest-rated hotels had suffered the biggest percentage declines in overnights last month, whereas luxury and three-star hotels had seen increases.

The office added that there had been increases in the numbers of overnights by guests from Japan (15 per cent), Germany, (five per cent) and Austria (three per cent), whereas there had been declines in the numbers of those from the Russian Federation (19 per cent), France (18 per cent) and Italy (15 per cent).

The bed-occupancy ratio was 46.3 per cent last month, compared to 48.9 per cent in November 2008, and the room-occupancy ratio was 58 per cent in November this year compared to 61 per cent in the same month last year. Vienna had 3.3 per cent more beds on offer, or an additional 1,560 beds, last month than in November 2008.

The bed-occupancy ratio during the first 11 months of the year was 50.6, a decline of 5.3 percentage points compared to the same period last year, and the room-occupancy ratio from January through November 2009 was 63 per cent, compared to 70 per cent for the first 11 months of 2008.

The office also said hotel turnover during the first 10 months of 2009 had fallen 14.5 per cent year on year to 352,429,000 Euros. The figures for November 2009 are not yet available.

Meanwhile, hotel prices in Vienna are reportedly soaring.

Online hotel listings platform Trivago – which compares hotel prices with its Trivago Hotel Price Index (THPI) every month – reported earlier this month that a standard double room in the capital cost 110 Euros this month, up by five per cent from November.

Hotel prices in cities across Europe, however, dropped this month year on year by eight per cent, according to the agency.

Several top Austrian ski resorts are expected to slash prices on package deals in a reaction to the economic downturn. Officials reportedly plan to increase their range of cut-price package deals in order to remain an attractive option for cash-strapped Austrian and foreign families.

Austrian Times

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