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Twenty per cent fewer Romanian tourists in Vienna in February

Romanian Times

The number of Romanian tourists visiting Vienna registered the largest monthly year on year decline in February, according to the Austrian Times.

The number of Romanian guests dropped by 21 per cent year on year in February.

Viennese tourism officials announced today (Weds) that hotels and pensions in the city had registered 519,000 overnights last month, a 7.1 per cent year on year increase.

The number of tourist overnights in January was 604,000, a nine per cent year on year increase.

Authorities said today the number of Russian guests had risen 23 per cent year on year last month, while 21 per cent more Italians and 19 per cent more Germans visited Vienna last month than in February 2009.

The number of overnights by guests from the UK, Switzerland, Austria and the USA also rose.

It was also announced today that 36.2 per cent of available beds had been occupied – a positive development considering the 33.9 per cent rate in February 2009.

Forty-five per cent of rooms were booked compared to just 42 per cent in the same month last year.

The announcements came just days after international online hotel rating platform Trivago had said that the average price for a hotel room in Vienna had gone up by two per cent this month to 116 Euros compared to March 2009.

The average price of hotel rooms in Europe, meanwhile, stayed constant at 102 Euros from February to March 2010, the website – which compares hotel prices in countries all over the world with its Trivago Hotel Price Index (THPI) every month – said.

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