Report on the Impact, Development and Structure of the Austrian Tourism and Leisure Industry 2015

In 2015, total tourism consumption of domestic and foreign visitors in Austria amounted to 38.39 billion € according to the TSA concept (estimate; +5.0 percent from previous year). The resulting direct and indirect effects of tourism accounted for 24.11 billion € (+4.3 percent compared to 2014) and contributed 7.1 percent to the overall economy. Both, tourism consumption and non-tourism expenditures on leisure consumption by residents, resulted in total value-added effects of 45.75 billion € in 2015 (+3.7 percent from previous year) and in a contribution to GDP of 13.5 percent (+0.1 percentage point). After stagnating over the last few years, Austria's real tourism receipts from international travel (tourism exports) increased by 4.2 percent in 2015. Also revenues from domestic tourism recovered in real terms for the first time since 2009, by 2.2 percent. In total, real tourism receipts rose by 3.7 percent after a slight decrease in 2013 and 2014. Austria's market share in nominal tourism exports of the EU 15 increased again in 2015, after the last gain in 2009. Currently, the market share amounts to 5.80 percent, which still implies a gap of 0.6 percentage points compared to 2009, but a distinctive surplus against the all-time minimum value of 5.36 percent (2000).