Austria's record winter: 72 million overnight stays and a tourism boom!

Austria's record winter: 72 million overnight stays and a tourism boom!

Wien, Österreich - The winter season 2024/25 in Austria has proven to be extremely successful. From November 2024 to April 2025, domestic tourism recorded according to preliminary data from The press an increase to 72.25 million overnight stays and 20.55 million guests. This corresponds to the highest number of arrivals in history, as Statistics Austria confirms.

compared to the previous year's season, the overnight stays rose by 1.6 percent, which indicates that Austria almost reached the level of winter 2018/19 when 72.92 million overnight stays were recorded. The overnight plus in April 2025, which was 23.9 percent above the previous year, was particularly remarkable, which is particularly due to the late celebration of Easter.

origin of the guests and regional distribution

The majority of the overnights came from the German neighbors and domestically. 69 percent of the overnight stays came from guests from three main countries: Germany, Austria and the Netherlands. 25.9 million overnight stays came from Germany, which corresponds to a decline of 1.1 percent compared to the previous season. However, domestic overnight stays rose by 1.2 percent to 5.92 million, while Dutch guests recorded an increase of 2.5 percent.

The strongest regions in winter sports were Tyrol and Salzburg, which together generated 57.9 percent of all overnight stays. Tyrol shone with 26.4 million overnight stays, followed by Salzburg with 15.5 million. Vienna also contributed to the balance sheet with an impressive plus from 10.1 percent to 8.9 million overnight stays. Other federal states such as Styria, Vorarlberg and Carinthia are stagnating or listing minor losses in the overnight stays.

Current trends and booking highs

The months of January and February were the most booking of the season, in which around 46 percent of all bookings took place. A total of 33.2 million overnight stays were registered in these two months. This positive development is also reflected in the figures for the first calendar quarter 2025, where a total of 54 million overnight stays were registered, but with a decrease of 0.8 percent compared to the previous year.

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