Press release: 10.696-005/13

Austria offers around 1.1 million beds for tourists in 2013

V i e n n a , 2014-01-15 - According to an annual survey of Statistics Austria about 64 000 accommodation establishments (excluding campsites) and 1.10 million beds (excluding extra beds) were listed in Austria in the reference period November 2012 to October 2013. This denotes a widely constant bed supply (+0.6 percent). In contrast to commercial accommodations, where the bed capacity rose by 1.2 percent, bed places in private accommodations declined by -1.0 per cent. Tyrol (23 100 respectively 350 800) and Salzburg (11 400 respectively 210 000) which listed the most nights spent by tourists, offered about half of all accommodation establishments and bed capacity.
The bed occupancy rate during the winter season 2012/13 exceeded the rate of the summer season
2013 by 3.3 percentage points (winter: 35.2 per cent; summer: 31.9 per cent) and increased slightly
compared to the preceding season (winter and summer: +0.2 percentage points). For more detailed information please refer to the German version.

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