Bayerisches Landesportal: Bavaria as a Holiday resort

Bavaria as a Holiday resort

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Holidaymakers love to come to Bavaria. For many guests from home and abroad Bavaria is a must for their vacations. Bavaria can offer wonderful landscapes, perfect conditions for sports and recreation, rich art and cultural treasures, and of course the proverbial Bavarian hospitality.

From day trips to stays of several weeks, from active holidays to simple relaxation - Bavaria can provide a wide range of choices for every holidaymaker. For example, you can hike or cycle through the many beauties of nature, or visit the numerous cultural monuments, or simply relax in a wellness centre and recharge your batteries.

If you go climbing or hiking in the Bavarian Alps, you will find an incomparable natural panorama. The Bavarian winter sports resorts attract all skiing fans with well maintained slopes and cross-country ski runs. The many lakes in Bavaria are a veritable paradise for sailors and windsurfers. A cultural highlight in Bavaria is the Romantic Road Route, stretching from Lower Franconia to the Allgäu. Here you can find one sight next to the other, likes pearls on a necklace: from the magnificent Baroque city of Würzburg through the Tauber valley, via the mediaeval town of Rothenburg down to the so-called ‘Pfaffenwinkel' and the Ludwig Castles of Hohenschwangau and Neuschwanstein. And everywhere in Bavaria there are inviting inns and restaurants where you can enjoy the culinary specialities of the various regions.

Bavaria is the most popular holiday resort in Germany, visited by almost 24 million people every year. The hotels and guest-houses in the state can point to 70 million overnight stays a year. A quarter of all the tourism in Germany takes place in Bavaria. With an annual turnover of more than 24 billion Euros tourism represents an important branch of the Bavarian economy. Approximately 560,000 people work in the tourist sector in Bavaria.

Tourism as an Economic Factor

Visitors to Bavaria spend more than 24 billion Euros every year, which represents 18.5% of the tourist added value in the whole of Germany. A total of more than 560,000 people in Bavaria work in the tourism sector.

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