Press Before the coronavirus crisis: tourism accounted for 4% of value added and for 2.6% of greenhouse gas emissions

Press release No. 590 of 21 December 2021

WIESBADEN – Domestic tourism generated 124 billion euros in the year prior to the coronavirus crisis and thus accounted for 4% of Germany’s value added. In 2019, tourists spent a total of 330 billion euros on tourism-related goods and services within Germany. These tourism activities resulted in greenhouse gas emissions of 24.6 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents. They represented 2.6% of all greenhouse gas emissions caused in Germany. These are results published by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) in its new report on "Aktuelle Daten zur Tourismuswirtschaft – Wirtschaftliche Bedeutung und Nachhaltigkeit" which for the first time examines the sustainability of tourism in Germany. The report is based on results of both national accounts and environmental-economic accounting.

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