Many German guests

Second best tourism year in the federal state of Salzburg

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In the past tourism year 2023/24, the federal state of Salzburg was almost able to maintain the level of the previous record year and achieved its second-best result ever. Overnight bookings fell by a good 200,000 to 29.84 million, according to the balance sheet published on Thursday.

The decline is therefore almost entirely attributable to the summer season, which was also the second best since records began.

In the tourist summer, which the industry counts from May to October, the majority of guests once again came from Germany (44 percent), while the second largest group of Salzburg vacationers were Austrians (23 percent). Most overnight stays were recorded in Pinzgau (5.8 million), followed by Pongau (3.9 million) and the city of Salzburg (just under 1.9 million). Once again this year, most guests booked in the months of July and August; a new monthly record was set in October with over 1.4 million overnight stays. The distribution between winter and summer is now almost balanced in the province of Salzburg: The 14.2 million overnight stays in summer accounted for just under 48 percent of the annual result.