Press release No. 220 of 19 June 2020
Turnover in accommodation and food service activities, April 2020
-56.3% on the previous month (in real terms, calendar and seasonally adjusted, provisional)
-56.2% on the previous month (in nominal terms, calendar and seasonally adjusted, provisional)
-75.8% on the same month a year earlier (in real terms, provisional)
-75.2% on the same month a year earlier (in nominal terms, provisional)
WIESBADEN – The coronavirus pandemic had an even stronger substantial impact on accommodation and food service activities in Germany in April 2020 than in March 2020. As further reported by the Federal Statistical Office, turnover in the hotels and restaurants sector fell by 75.8% in real terms (price-adjusted) and by 75.2% in nominal terms (not price-adjusted) in April 2020 compared with April 2019. Compared with March 2020, turnover in the hotels and restaurants sector fell by 56.3% in real terms (after calendar and seasonal adjustment) and by 56.2% in nominal terms in April 2020.
The turnover reported by the hotels and other accommodation establishments was 88.6% real and nominal lower than in April 2019. In food and beverage services, turnover fell by a real 68.5% compared with April 2019. Within food and beverage service activities, the real turnover of caterers in April 2020 was by 53.2% lower than in the same month of the previous year.
The reason for this was the ban on overnight stays of tourists in hotels and other accommodation establishments, which began on 18 March 2020. From 22 March 2020, restaurants were closed with the exception of takeaway and delivery services. Due to these measures, all branches of accommodation and food service activities saw the largest losses in turnover since the beginning of the time series in 1994.
Time series are available in table Turnover from accommodation and food services (45213-0005) in the GENESIS-Online database.
