Baden-Württemberg: Tourism industry: Southwest recovered strongly in summer

The pandemic was also a severe blow to the tourism industry. Now the pensions and hotels in the holiday regions are recovering. However, the latest figures do not yet come close to the old days.

Stuttgart (dpa/lsw) – Summer tourism in Baden-Württemberg is not yet where it was before the corona pandemic, but it has recovered significantly in the current year between Lake Constance, the Black Forest and the Electoral Palatinate. According to the State Statistical Office, the preliminary figures suggest that holiday regions are making a comeback. “Country tourism is catching up,” said the office on Wednesday. Overall, the guesthouses, hotels and inns welcomed around 13.1 million people from May to October, and around 33.7 million overnight stays were counted.

This corresponds to an increase of 43.5 percent in arrivals and 29.5 percent in overnight stays compared to the 2021 summer season, the state office announced. In the summer of 2019, on the other hand, the numbers were 5.7 percent and 2.4 percent higher.

Things went particularly well for the tourism industry in the typical summer months of July and August. Holidaymakers from Germany in particular came to Baden-Württemberg throughout the summer. According to the state office, the positive development in the months of May, June, September and October was even higher than in the same period before the pandemic.

There was also an increase in foreign guests. In total, around 3.0 million overnight guests came from abroad in the past summer season 2022, they booked a total of 6.7 million overnight stays. Again at the top: Switzerland. Many holidaymakers also came to the south-west from the Netherlands and France.

The southern Black Forest (18.9 percent market share of all overnight stays), northern Baden-Württemberg (15.9 percent) and the Stuttgart region (13.6 percent) were particularly in demand in summer. In the Württemberg region of Allgäu-Oberschwaben, on Lake Constance and in the southern Black Forest, the numbers were even higher last summer than in the corresponding period in 2019.