As Deutsche Welle reports, the European leader TUI's number of booked trips this year is still 3-4% lower than last year's figures, which were themselves quite low. As for Thomas Cook, its accounting report for the past financial year generally shows a minus. In total, the company incurred losses of 122 million euros. As is known, Thomas Cook belongs to the German concerns Karstadt and Lufthansa.
Against the background of these reports, the data published last week in Wiesbaden by the German Federal Statistical Office are not surprising at all. The number of German tourists who spent their holidays abroad fell by 3.1% last year, amounting to 47 million people. The popularity of classic tourist regions declined particularly noticeably - above all, resorts on the Mediterranean coast of Spain, the Balearic and Canary Islands. Only Turkey, Egypt, and Kenya managed to improve their indicators. But ultimately, the figures confirm the tendency that has emerged among German residents to save on holidays.