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Verified tourism statistics, GDP contribution, and investment attractiveness for Austria. Every figure anchored to WTTC EIR 2025.
Tourism GDP share
11.0%
Arrivals (2024)
28.0 million
Capex (2024)
$5.1 billion
In 2024, travel and tourism in Austria welcomed 28.0 million international arrivals and contributed $57.5 billion to the national economy — 11.0% of GDP and 524,000 jobs. That places Austria 11th among the 42 economies tracked in the WTTC Economic Impact Research 2025. On average, each international visitor to Austria generated roughly $1,021.429 of inbound spending. Every figure on this page is anchored to that release — no estimates, no AI-generated numbers.
Travel and tourism contributed $57.5 billion to Austria's economy in 2024, equal to 11.0% of national GDP. That marks 7.6% year-on-year growth versus 2023. By tourism's share of the national economy, Austria ranks 11th of the 42 economies in the WTTC panel — a measure of how concentrated the country is on travel and tourism relative to its overall output. WTTC forecasts the sector to reach 12.2% of GDP in 2025.
Tourism's share of Austria's GDP rose from 10.8% in 2019 to 11.0% in 2024 , meaning the sector has more than recovered its pre-pandemic weight in the economy.
Tourism supported 524,000 jobs in Austria in 2024 — 11.1% of total national employment. That ranks 19th of the 42 WTTC economies by tourism jobs. Each of those jobs is associated with roughly $109,753.77 of tourism GDP contribution — a useful proxy for sector productivity in Austria.
Austria recorded 28.0 million international visitor arrivals in 2024. Inbound visitors spent $28.6 billion — a direct injection of foreign-currency earnings into the economy. That works out to about $1,021.429 of inbound receipts per international arrival, a headline indicator of how much value Austria captures from each visitor.
Capital investment into Austria's travel and tourism reached $5.1 billion in 2024 , 4.0% of the country's total capital formation. That ranks 25th among the 42 tracked economies. WTTC characterises Austria's tourism investment momentum as accelerating, a forward signal for how the pipeline of hotels, transport and attractions is likely to develop.
Within Europe, Austria's 11.0% tourism share of GDP sits alongside regional peers such as Turkey (11.8%), Germany (11.2%), Italy (10.5%). Comparing these economies on the same WTTC-verified basis is what makes cross-country tourism benchmarking reliable — every figure is drawn from the identical EIR 2025 methodology.
Across the 2019–2025 window WTTC tracks, tourism's share of Austria's GDP moved from 10.8% to 12.2%.
WTTC projects tourism to expand to 13.1% of Austria's GDP by 2035, up from 11.0% in 2024. Long-range share forecasts like this are the backbone of demand-planning and investment-attractiveness analysis for Austria.
Taken together, these WTTC-verified figures position Austria 11th of 42 economies by tourism's share of GDP, placing it in the top quartile of tourism-intensive economies. With investment momentum rated accelerating and an expanding long-run GDP-share forecast, the data points to continued structural growth tourism economy. For analysts, the value here is reproducibility: every claim on this page is anchored to a single, named source (WTTC EIR 2025) and can be re-derived line by line — no black-box estimates, no model drift between report runs.
Statistics
Austria Tourism Statistics
Verified Austria tourism statistics for 2025: visitor arrivals, spending, GDP contribution, employment. WTTC EIR 2025 anchored.
GDP
Austria Tourism GDP
Austria tourism GDP contribution 2025, share of national economy, employment data. WTTC verified.
Investment
Austria Tourism Investment
Austria tourism investment attractiveness 2025: capex, demand momentum, 10-year forecast. WTTC-anchored.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Travel and tourism contributed $57.5 billion to Austria's economy in 2024 — 11.0% of national GDP, per WTTC EIR 2025.
Austria received 28.0 million international visitor arrivals in 2024 (WTTC EIR 2025).
International visitors generated roughly $1,021.429 of inbound spending per arrival in Austria in 2024 — total inbound receipts of $28.6 billion across 28.0 million arrivals (WTTC EIR 2025).
Tourism supported 524,000 jobs in Austria in 2024, 11.1% of total national employment (WTTC EIR 2025).
Tourism capital investment in Austria reached $5.1 billion in 2024, with momentum rated accelerating by WTTC EIR 2025.
WTTC projects tourism to reach 13.1% of Austria's GDP by 2035, versus 11.0% in 2024 (WTTC EIR 2025).
Austria ranks 11th among the 42 economies in the WTTC EIR 2025 panel by tourism share of GDP.
Yes. Every figure traces to WTTC Economic Impact Research 2025 (last accessed 2026-05-11). DataGreat's narrator is locked to those values — no estimates or AI-generated numbers.
METHODOLOGY & SOURCE
Every numeric claim on this page is sourced from WTTC EIR 2025 (WTTC EIR 2025 — Austria, p. 1). Last accessed 2026-05-11. No figures are estimated, modelled, or AI-generated — DataGreat's narrator is locked to WTTC values verbatim.