Impacts of tourism

The tourism industry is of great economic importance for Germany. The sector contributed 97.0 billion Euro or 4.4% to German gross value added in 2010.

Additionally, the tourism industry directly employed almost 2.9 million persons. This is 7.0% of total employment in Germany.

Study on behalf of Association of the German tourism industry (BTW e.V.) in cooperation with Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Technology