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Tourism creates 2.9 million jobs and contributes almost 100 billion Euros in added value in Germany

In 2010, tourists and business travellers from home and abroad utilized goods and services worth a total of almost 280 billion Euros in Germany. This is the result of the survey “Wirtschaftsfaktor Tourismus (Economic Impact of Tourism)” commissioned by the Federal Association of German Tourism Industry (BTW) and funded by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology. Thanks to that turnover, 2.9 million people, or seven per cent of the total employment figure, in this country are employed. At the same time, the so-called direct effects of tourism alone, such as Flights and train tickets or hotel bookings, contribute 4.4 percent to the gross value in Germany, which is almost 100 billion Euros. If you include the so-called intermediate consumption, which includes, for example, airport services, deliveries by bakeries to restaurants or renovation work by artisans in hotels, as well as the effects on output generated by wages to employees of the tourism industry, then tourism even contributes 9.7 percent of added value and twelve percent to employment.

These main results of the survey conducted by the Berlin consultancy firm DIW econ underpin the importance of the tourism industry for the business location Germany. They were presented in Berlin by the Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology and representative of the Federal Government for medium-sized businesses and Tourism, Ernst Burgbacher, MdB, and BTW-President Klaus Laepple in early February.

Klaus Laepple: “I am delighted that this study impressively proves how strong our industry really is. As the tourism industry is so heterogeneous, unfortunately, it is all too often underestimated how relevant it is for the business location Germany. In view of the employment figures and value creation it significantly outranks sectors such as the automotive industry, mechanical engineering or the banking industry. The revenues generated by the tourism consumption speak for themselves”.

The study is based on the internationally recognized methodology of a Tourism Satellite Account (TSA), which supplements the national accounts. Day trips and overnight trips by travellers and business travellers were examined.

The long and the short version of the study are available at
www.btw.de  
www.bmwi.de
www.bmwi.de

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