Tourism In Graz

The main reasons behind the present appeal of Graz tourism are the southern climate and the historical value of the old town.Official designations of the city as a World Heritage Site and Capital of Culture in 2003 support this marketing effort.Still, the same year saw the completion of the Kunsthaus Graz, the “Friendly Alien,” and the Grazer Murinsel, which established two new monuments for modern-day Graz.Agrarmarkt Austria Marketing GesmbH dubbed Graz the “Culinary Capital” of Austria in 2012.This was brought about by “Grazer Krauthäuptel,” a unique lettuce kind brought over from Carniola at the beginning of the 20th century.

Graz is a major convention city as well.Graz has around 1000 non-commercial guest beds (private rooms, youth hostels, and camping) and about 5000 commercial visitor beds as of 2018.Business travelers are responsible for around half of all overnight stays.Congress and seminar travel accounts for around 13% of the whole tourist sector.Traditional city and cultural tourism makes up 37%. In recent times, this category has grown the fastest. 2014 had more over a million recorded overnight visitors. With over 788,000 overnight lodgings at the end of the crisis year 2009, Graz had a 1% drop over the year before. The guest composition shows a strong foreign mix together with a sizable percentage of local tourists (around 47%). The financial and economic crises could not stop the upward trend, which reached a record high of 1,061,095 overnight stays in 2017. As the percentage of domestic tourists has dropped from 44.8% to less than 45%, the trend of globalization continues.

The whole amount of visitors visiting Graz during night is as follows: