Austria: 43% drop in Arab overnight stays during Ramadan

Austria: 43% drop in Arab overnight stays during Ramadan

Via Austrian Times:

Ramadan has been identified as the main reason for a dramatic decline of overnight stays by guests from the Arabian region last August.

Klaus Ehrenbrandtner, Middle East market manager of the Austria Marketing (ÖW), said today (Fri) there had been a 43.3 per cent drop in overnights by tourists from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait in August of this year compared to the same month of 2009.

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