Importance of the Vienna’s Visitor Economy

The effects of the visitor economy on the city’s development are far-ranging. They extend to everything from economic factors and infrastructure to cultural and culinary diversity. Indicators at a glance (2019)

EUR 3.97 economic impact

Share of Vienna’s gross regional product: 4.2%
Share of economic impact from tourism in Austria: 12.1%

116,500 jobs in Vienna

Around 11% of all employment relationships in Vienna are attributable to leisure and tourism, according to Statistics Austria’s tourism satellite account and the Austrian Institute of Economic Research Vienna (WIFO).
The Vienna Economic Chamber’s Tourism & Leisure division has around 14,000 member organizations.

Outstanding infrastructure

Air travel: in 2019, 77 airlines operated 217 direct flights from 68 countries
Excellent rail and bus connections
New long-distance coach terminal planned
400 WiFi hotspots
More than 1,500 Citybikes with 121 docking stations

Cultural diversity

Vienna State Opera: an ever-changing line-up on 300 nights of the year
99.21% capacity utilization
Music Film Festival on Rathausplatz: Europe’s largest culture and culinary festival with 950,000 visitors each year
ImPulsTanz: Europe’s largest contemporary dance festival
The Albertina: home to one of the world’s most extensive collections of graphic art, with more than 900,000 printed works and 50,000 sketches and watercolors.
Condé Nast Traveler featured the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna in its list of the world’s 15 most beautiful museums in 2017.
The MuseumsQuartier – one of the world’s largest cultural complexes (total area: 87,800m²).

Vienna’s culinary scene

Viennese Cuisine is the only cuisine in the world to be named after a capital city.
Around 8,200 gastro sector enterprises – from restaurants to coffeehouses
Around 2,300 cafés – from traditional coffeehouses to neighborhood espresso bars
Sidewalk seating areas at 3,500 cafés, bars and restaurants
Vienna is the only major city in the world with extensive vineyards within the city limits. Around 700 hectares of vineyards, 145 winegrowers
13 Michelin-starred restaurants, 140 Gault Millau toque-winning restaurants