Tourism in Austria hit unchartered heights in 2025, with some 157.27 million nights spent and 48.17 million tourist arrivals, new data from Statistics Austria has found.
This marks a 1.9% increase in nights spent, and a 3.1% increase in arrivals compared to the previous year, which was previously the strongest year on record. It’s the third time in history that nights spent has surpassed the 150-million mark.
More than half of all nights spent were recorded in Tyrol and Salzburg, which together accounted for 80.92 million nights; Tyrol reported a 1.7% increase on the previous year, while Salzburg was up 2.4%.
In percentage terms, Vienna reported the highest year-on-year growth (6.5%), with this figure rising to 7.7% among non-resident guests.
International visitors
International visitors accounted for around three quarters (74.3%) of total nights spend, with Germany (58.55 million), the Netherlands (11.26 million), Switzerland and Liechtenstein contributing the highest number of nights.
City tourism was popular, with Vienna and other provincial capitals recording 29.05 million nights spent, up 5.7% on the previous year. Vienna broke the 20-million-mark for the first time, with the number of nights spent totalling 20.09 million.
Other major cities, including Eisenstadt (up 11.3%) and Graz (up 5.2%) also reported notable gains.
‘All-time high’
“The year 2025 brought domestic tourism an all-time high in terms of overnight stays,” commented Manuela Lenk, director general – statistics, at Statistics Austria.
“With 157.27 million nights spent in hotels, guesthouses and holiday apartments, the 150 million mark was exceeded for the third time in a row. Compared to the strong year of 2024, this represents an increase of 1.9%. The growth is mainly attributable to international guests, but overnight stays by domestic guests also rose slightly compared to the previous year.”
Elsewhere, tourism intensity, measured as the number of nights spent per inhabitant, increased slightly to 17.1 nights per person in 2025, up from 16.8 in 2024 and just below the previous peak of 17.2 nights per inhabitant recorded in 2019. Read more here.
