Norbert Weibeg, president of the German Tourism Federation DRV, said that the travel industry is now relying heavily on rapid vaccines and PCR testing strategies to remove global travel restrictions, explaining that 2020 has been a terrible year for the tourism industry in Germany and the world at large, where tourism has declined by about 80%, and suffered Inclusive tours, which had a 51% market share in 2019, dropping to just 39% last year.
During the inauguration of ITB Berlin, with the participation of more than 120 countries through the ITB Now virtual platform, established during the period from 9 to 12 March, “Corona” added that Corona has led to an increase in Germans vacationing in German cities or traveling to neighboring countries such as Austria. He pointed out that these trips are usually booked without the help of travel agencies and tour operators.
He pointed out that spending on travel in the summer of 2020 decreased by 64%, achieving 16 billion euros, and for organized travel through tourism companies the decrease was 80% higher, and according to the Federal Bureau of Statistics, the number of tourist nights in Germany decreased by 40%, the most booked destination for the year. the past.
And the head of the German Tourism Federation continued, saying: It is with a look at the studies of GfK that we have hope that the Germans want to preserve their travel habits and their favorite destinations, explaining that reservations are slowly increasing with the view of the summer, reaching only 26% of the volume of reservations for the previous year, and this reflects that there is Latent demand for destinations in the eastern Mediterranean, especially Egypt, Turkey and Greece, is expected to achieve 50% of the sales that were in 2019, and this is a great success.
"The resumption of travel and tourism is not only important to the travel industry, but is also necessary for Germany as a commercial site," Veeg added. "The permanent and unfair stigmatization of the travel industry as a hypothetical engine for the Corona virus on the part of many politicians must end, pointing out that the Robert Koch Institute has shown in recent studies that "Group trips are not responsible for the spread of the virus, and the travel industry needs a new perspective that politicians must understand."
For his part, Dr. Saeed Al-Batouti, a member of the German Tourism Federation, revealed that the Berlin Stock Exchange had conducted an opinion poll, in partnership with Statista, the German company specializing in market and consumer data, on citizens in the important source markets in Germany, the United States and China about their travel plans this year, and the result was that 37% of Germans, 42% of Americans, and 66% of Chinese would like to take one or more trips this year.
He said that the poll results showed about 25% of Germans and Americans and more than 35% of Chinese want to spend more money on travel in the next twelve months, and that supports the results in a travel analysis conducted by the Holidays and Travel Research Association (FUR), as The Germans were asked about their intentions at the start of the year and that people wanted to travel and wait to relax.
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