Simple answer.....yes.
Our public TV network (HR) did a report on this. Basically things did go well for campers in the state of Hessen (where I live). The numbers are up 11-percent from they were a year ago.
On hotels? Dismal. Forty-two percent of 2019 guests were missing. The foreign guests? Missing in a massive way.....around three-quarters of the normal guests from beyond Germany missing. From the ones who did show....I would imagine most were from Italy, Netherlands or a nearby country.
Normal occupancy fell to around 27-percent....in the period when you'd have a lot of summer guests and be maxed out.
The HR folks even noted that Frankfurt hotels were hit worse than the outlying areas.
Likely to continue? Until you rebuild the foreign visitor situation, I don't see any significant improvement. Tourism in Germany can probably handle one single year of this type of effect, but if you go into mid-summer of 2021, and this continues? At that point, you might have a couple of big-name hotels that just say enough....shutting down.
It's the same with cruise-boats on the Rhine and these bus tours. All of them are in the suffering situation.
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