The graph gives an overview of the development of the number of visits on the widgets provided by easybooking. These are the booking endine and the request form, which are integrated into the website by all accommodation providers that are using easybooking as software solution. The hits, searches and sent requests are measured to determine when the interest in holidays in Austria will increase again.

The first sign of improvement in the tourism industry is the interest in holidays, measurable by the incoming requests that guests send to our accommodation providers. This graph automatically displays, on a daily basis, how the number of enquiries has changed compared to the previous year. We experienced the absolute low point in March of last year: in March 2020, for example, there were 93% fewer inquiries compared to the same day last year.

The trend line has been declining since the start of the pandemic from February 2020 and bottomed out at the end of March 2020 with up to 91% fewer incoming bookings compared to the previous year. And the number of requests shows the same values. While the summer months of 2020 showed a strong upswing again, activity fell again in the winter months of 2020/21. Since the announcements in mid-September 2021, tourism has experienced a renewed upswing and the industry is enjoying more inquiries and bookings.

At the beginning of the crisis, since February 2020, vacations have been increasingly canceled and on March 13, 2020 the cancellation rate was up to 944% higher than in the previous year. The time course clearly shows that parallel to the improvement in the general situation, mainly in the summer of 2020, the number of cancellations also fell again. Also on November 19, 2021 there were +574% cancellations compared to the previous year, which is due to the announcement of the 4th lockdown for Austria.