Schleswig-Holstein is Germany's number 1 holiday region. In 2022 approximately 322,000 tourism beds were available there. This means that the west German state was on top, followed by Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (307,000) and the region Upper Bavaria (280,000).
In EU comparison the German tourism areas are lagging far behind the classic touristic centres, which offer tripple the number of sleeping accomodations. The highest number in the EU was recorded on the Croatian cost of the Adriatic with more than one million tourism beds, followed by the Spanish Catalonia with its holiday areas at the Costa Brava offering approximatley 799,000 sleeping accomodations and Veneto in Italy (741,000 tourism beds).