The development of tourism in Germany
1970ies, 1980ies and 1990ies
1970ies:
- The available income of a worker per year: 5.080 Euro
- Least vacation of 20 days in the year
- 1970 travelled 32% of the population once a year in the vacation
- 1973 travelled 50% of the population
- 1976 it rose to 55%
- Of this 55% to foreign countries and 45% stay in the same country
- For the first time, more people travelled in other than the own country
- Spain was very popular
- Great Boom of package tours: 1970 only 13% of the trips, at the end of 1970 28%
1980ies:
- The available income: 10.151 Euro
- The travel and flight tourism experienced an impetus
- Germany got the title “Reiseweltmeister” (world travel champion)
- 2012 the Chinese join the competition
- The package tours raise to 40%
- Since 1980 travelled 65% of the population
- Up to now this value stay the same
- 1989 travelled 69% to foreign countries
1990ies:
- The available income: 14.063 Euros
- Since 1995: Least vacation of 24 days in the year
- Since the reunification many citizens used their new freedom to travel
- This led to new records
- 43,2 million of people travelled
- Spain was the most popular destination
- New destinations inspire the younger people and backpacker
- For example: India, Thailand or the USA
- A reason for this were the cheap tickets
- To compare:
1950:
- A ticket to New York: 3.500 Mark
- This is 77% of the income
1990:
- A ticket to New York: 600 Mark
- Only 1,2% of the income
The Economic Impact of Germany’s Tourism Industry
Impact on income
→ The production of the goods and services that tourists in Germany consume generates a gross value added of 97.0 billion euros (direct effect) in 2010. (4.4 % in total gross value added of Germany)
→ The total contribution of tourism to gross value added in Germany increases to 214.1 billion euros
Impact on employment
→ The production of goods and services that tourists in Germany consume generate employment for 2.9 million persons (direct effect). This corresponds to 7.0 % of all employed persons in Germany.
→ The total contribution of tourism to employment in Germany increases to 4.9 million persons (indirect effects).
Accordingly, the total contribution of tourism to employment in Germany increases to 12.0 %.
The macroeconomic context of these results is as follows:
→ The direct contribution of tourism to gross value added (4.4 %) is similar in magnitude to that of the construction sector (4.3 %), the education sector (4.6 %) or the professional and technical services industry (4.6 %). Gross value added in the automo-
bile industry or in the banking and financial ser-
vices sector (both 2.5 %) is smaller.
The direct contribution of tourism to employment in Germany (7.0 %) is of similar magnitude to the retail sector (9.2 %) and the education sector (5.9 %). Other sectors, such as construction (3.0 %) or machine building (2.6 %), contribute less.
Sources
https://www.bmwi.de/Redaktion/EN/Publikationen/wirtschaftsfaktor-tourismus-deutschland.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=1.
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