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Fig. 6.7.
Foreign
overnights by countries of
origin, 2003. Source:
Tourismus in Zahlen 2005,
p. 80; national statistical
yearbooks.
to Western Central European countries like
Austria, Switzerland and (as regards tourism
also) Italy, showing a dominant impact second
only to the huge German market. Central
and Eastern European markets are in Central
and Eastern Europe certainly better represented
than in Western Central Europe, but they only
exceptionally dominate.
Austria in this year, their number increased to
3.439m or 4% in 2003. While Polish tourist
nights were the most numerous among Central
and Eastern Europeans in 1999 (0.795m or 1%),
ranking them tenth among foreign nations (see
Hungarians, who with 1 million tourist nights
(1.009m) made up 1.2% of all foreign over-
night stays in Austria and ranked ninth among
foreign
tourism
(Wirtschaftskammer
Tourism Flows Between Central and
Eastern Europe and Austria
Österreich, 2004).
Still, these figures are not really impressive,
although they have more than tripled compared
to years before the fall of the Iron Curtain (e.g.
1987: 1.050m overnights from Central and
Eastern European countries, 1.2% of all foreign
overnights in Austria), although tourism from
Central and Eastern Europe to Austria concen-
trates on the winter season with higher per
capita expenditures and although by less
concentration on top destinations it somehow
contributes
Central and Eastern European
tourists in Austria
Tourist flows from Central and Eastern European
countries (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia,
Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia) to Austria have
increased in recent years, especially in the winter
season. While for the calendar year 1999
2.753m overnight stays of Central and Eastern
European citizens were registered in Austria
(Wirtschaftskammer Österreich, 2004) and this
meant 3.3% of all foreign overnight stays in
to
the
equalization
of
regional
disparities in Austria.
In the calendar year 2003, 70.5% of all
Central and Eastern European tourist nights
