Tourism in Frankfurt: Good start for the tourism year

 After a record 2015 could in January 2016 and a total of 668,233 overnight stays (+ 5.7 per cent compared to 2015) and 370 261 overnight guests (+ 3.7 per cent) are counted in Frankfurt. A good start to the year for tourism. A good exhibition business and a strong conference and event business beneficiary of overnight stays. The average length of stay increased to 1.8 days. The foreign market (+ 9.5 percent) significantly outperformed the domestic market develops in overnight stays (+ 2.1 percent). The largest foreign source market US has with 41 119 overnight stays (+ 15.6 percent) strongly increasing. Important emerging markets such as China (+ 38.3 percent), the Arab Gulf States (+ 4.8 percent) and India (+ 8 percent) also recorded Steigerungsraten.Die source markets Brazil (- 40.1 percent) and Russia (- 19.2 percent), however, are rapidly declining. The major European markets outperform over: UK (+13, 7 percent), Spain (+ 17.7 percent), Italy (+ 11, 8 per cent) and the Netherlands (+ 12.7 percent).