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August is the classic month of summer vacation. The hope of hoteliers shaken by the Corona crisis was correspondingly high to offset at least part of the catastrophic previous year. Compared to the previous year, the number of overnight stays in August fell 28.1 percent to 3.2 million, as the Federal Statistical Office (FSO) announced on Monday. In July, the FSO recorded only 3.4 million overnight stays, in June it was 1.4 million.
More than two-thirds of the August guests came from Switzerland. Overnight stays by domestic guests increased 15.6 percent to 2.2 million compared to the previous year. This shows that the various calls to spend the summer holidays in Switzerland this year have paid off. But there is no reason to be euphoric. Because the demand for foreign tourists collapsed by 60 percent to a total of 1 million.
BLICK compared the individual cantons with each other:
The five biggest losers:
- Gin: – 68.6 percent
- Zurich: – 66.9 percent
- Basel-Stadt: – 50.7 percent
- Zug: -42.1 percent
- Obwalden: – 41.3 percent
The five biggest winners:
- Swear: +15.3 percent
- Appenzell Innerhoden: + 9.8 percent
- Neuchâtel: +7.8 percent
- Thurgau: + 4.6 percent
- Ticino: +3.5 percent
Since the beginning of the year, the number of overnight stays has accumulated at 16.5 million overnight stays. That’s 40.9 percent less than in the same period last year. The Swiss hotel industry thus lost 11.4 million overnight stays between January and August.
