With 153.000 overnight stays, this May, in which Vienna's accommodation providers were again allowed to receive leisure guests from the 19th, brought an arithmetical increase of 269 percent compared to the crisis year. But appearances are deceptive.

What at first glance looks like a great relaxation turns out to be "only" a small step in the right direction on closer inspection. Because if you take the comparison period from 2019, this year only around ten percent of the overnight stays (1,6 million) were achieved this year. The domestic market (73.000 overnight stays, +223 percent) was again the strongest home market, generating slightly less than half of all overnight stays.

The volume from Germany, with around 34.000 overnight stays (+510 percent), was only about half as much as that from Austria, but was still a multiple of that from the other markets: Romania, Poland, Hungary, Italy, the USA (the only one Fernmarkt in the top 10), Switzerland, the Czech Republic and Great Britain complete the list of the highest-volume markets of the year to date, but with the exception of Romania and Poland (each around 10.000 overnight stays), they only stayed in the four-digit range. From January to May 2021, a total of 453.000 overnight stays (-83 percent compared to 2020) were counted.