Hungary 14th Bestplaced In Europe In Tourism Recovery
As countries around the world lift travel restrictions and relax their borders, the global travel industry is on track to fully recover from two years of restrictions, although the pace varies from destination to destination. In an analysis of which countries returned to pre-COVID levels fastest by 2019 compared to 2021-2019, money.co.uk ranked Hungary 26th overall and 14th in Europe.
Globally, the survey ranked Bahrain in first place with 94.7%. Second place overall and first place in Europe went to Albania with a tourist recovery rate of 89.8%. The southeastern European country welcomed 5.3 million tourists in 2021, almost equal to 5.9 million in 2019. Luxembourg ranks second in Europe (and seventh in the world) with over 700,000 tourists in 2021, accounting for 70% of the total in 2019 corresponds. The small, landlocked Central European country “only” lost half of its usual tourist traffic at the start of the 2017-2020 shutdown.
Iceland rounds out the top 3 in Europe (eighth) with 1.3 million visitors in 2021, or 65% of total visitors in 2019 (2 million). Tenth place in the European ranking (17th overall) is next to neighboring Austria, which received 12.7 million tourists in 2021. However, this is only 56% of the total in 2019 (22.7 million). . Hungary, ranked 14th in Europe, is just behind Greece and welcomed 7.9 million visitors in 2021, almost 47% of 2019 levels.
Germany is among the five worst performing countries in Europe, posting a 33% recovery in 2021 compared to pre-COVID levels. The worst was Estonia with 800,000 tourists or 24.2% of the total in 2019.
"After nearly two years of lockdown, people are looking back to take their next holiday abroad," said James Andrews, personal finance expert at money.co.uk. “Although some consumer trends have changed forever, many of the common things people look for in potential travel destinations have stayed the same. At the top of that list is affordability, regardless of location or type of vacation.
74 countries worldwide were surveyed, 22 of them from Europe. States must have at least one million tourists in 2019, and data from 2020 and 2021 must be included in the census. See money.co.uk/travel/tourism-recovery for more information.
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