Vienna's Tourism Industry Enjoys Record Year

Vienna's tourism industry has just experienced its best year ever: 13,524,000 visitor overnights, 6.3% more than in 2013 and an all-time high.

Norbert Kettner , Managing Director of the Vienna Tourist Board, said, "International bednights account for around 82% of Vienna's total volume of bednights. This not only reflects Vienna's continued attractiveness, but also shows that our long-term systematic internationalization strategy diversifying into many different markets is paying off."

The Vienna Tourist Board's objective now is to increase Vienna's overnight figures to 18 million by the year 2020.

In 2014, Vienna's ten top markets were once again headed by Germany with 2,650,000 bednights (+5%), followed by Austria (2,481,000 bednights, +7%), the USA (748,000, +14%), Italy (696,000, +14%) and Russia (603,000, -15%).

Places 6 to 10 were taken by the United Kingdom (500,000, +11%), Switzerland (399,000, +4%), Spain (388,000, +8%), France (365,000, +4%) and Japan (300,000, -2%).

Strong growth was also reported from China (237,000, +13%), South Korea (156,000, +26%), Brazil (128,000, +11%) and India (65,000, +18%).

Between December 2013 and December 2014, Vienna's accommodation capacity increased by 2,900 beds (+4.9%) to around 61,400 beds, whilst room occupancy was about 71% (2013: 69%).

A total of 6,211,000 arrivals were recorded, an increase of 6.4%.