Germany’s favourite Baltic Sea island is Usedom! The sunny island of Usedom has significantly more guests per inhabitant or bed than its larger island neighbour – as shown by the current statistics.

The statistics from 2009 have just been published. With 4,198,906 commercial overnight stays and a marginal growth of 0.2 % in comparison to last year, the 4 million overnight-stay-threshold was surpassed for the third year on the trot.

2009’s capacity utilisation for beds on offer grew to 44.8 % (2008 = 44.1%), whilst the maximum number of beds was reduced in the last 13 months (2008 to 2009 minus 392 beds, or minus 1.3 %). Usedom is therefore still leader in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. In comparison Rügen/Hiddensee had a capacity utilisation of 39.2 %, the Mecklenburgische Ostseeküste 43.8 % and the state average was 40.8 %.

Noticeable: The number of beds on Usedom in December 2009 sunk by 3.1 % in comparison to the year before with 22.862 beds on offer (79 % of the total capacity). Whilst the overnight stays from foreign visitors sunk on a small scale by 6.3 %, the number of overnight stays by Swiss guests rose – thanks to the direct flight connection – by 18.4 % to 9,418 commercial overnight stays. 63 % of the Swiss guests that arrived by plane and filled-in an UTG questionnaire, said that they would not travel to the island of Usedom for holiday reasons with any other mode of transport. 35 % of the overnight stays from international guests were made by Swiss guests.

(if not indicated clearly, all figures come from the State Office of Statistics for Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, as of Feb. 2010)

We would now like to introduce you to the work of the Usedom Tourismus GmbH.