Press release No. 176 of 21 April 2022
Turnover in accommodation and food services, February 2022 (provisional results, calendar and seasonally adjusted)
+3.5%, in real terms, on the previous month
+4.2%, in nominal terms, on the previous month
+110.2%, in real terms, on the same month a year earlier
+119.7%, in nominal terms, on the same month a year earlier
WIESBADEN - In February 2022, the calendar and seasonally adjusted turnover in accommodation and food services declined by a real (price adjusted) 3.5% and a nominal (not price adjusted) 4.2% compared with January 2022. Real turnover in accommodation and food service activities more than doubled (+110.2%) compared with the lockdown month of February 2021, when there had been severe restrictions for the hotel and restaurant industry. Based on provisional results, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports, however, that the turnover in February 2022, in real terms, was 32.8% below the level of February 2020, the month before the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany.
Long time series regarding the monthly statistics of accommodation and food service activities are provided in the table on Turnover in accommodation and food services (45213-0005) in the GENESIS-Online database.
