Tourism: fewer overnight stays in the canton of Graubünden
In the Graubünden hotel industry, 7.4 percent fewer overnight stays were booked in August than in the same month last year. Compared to its Alpine competitors, the Bernese Oberland and Valais, Graubünden recorded the largest decline.
Overnight stays by tourists from Germany have fallen by over 17 percent. Hoteliers experienced practically the same slump among guests from the Netherlands, according to the report published on Friday by the marketing organization Graubünden Ferien (GRF). The number of overnight stays by Swiss tourists remained practically stable.
At destination level, hotels in Prättigau and Lenzerheide registered more overnight stays than in the same month last year. Hotels in the Engadin and Samnaun region and in the Disentis and Sedrun area recorded the largest losses. According to GRF, the August results are also "clearly below the average" in a 10-year comparison. The decline across the country averaged 6.4 percent.
Graubünden's Alpine competitors, the Bernese Oberland and the canton of Valais, lost 5 percent and 6.9 percent of overnight stays respectively. The canton of Ticino and the area around Lake Geneva suffered greater losses than Graubünden, with a decline of 12.5 percent and 7.7 percent respectively. (SDA)
