DIW Econ study: Airbnb travellers spent more than 1 billion euros on local consumption in Germany in 2016
The study commissioned by the Federal Association of the German Tourism Industry (BTW) funded by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy (BMWi) uses internationally established economic statistical methods to present the economic significance of tourism in Germany within the framework of a Tourism Satellite Account.
In accordance with the official economic statistics of the Federal Statistical Office, the structure and level of tourism consumption and the associated effects on gross value added and employment are recorded. The study also deals with the effects of digitisation on the tourism industry.
DIW Econ has analysed the economic significance of the film industry on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy (BMWi) and in cooperation with Goldmedia and the Hamburg Media School.
For the first time, the study provides reliable economic figures and detailed analyses of the activities of the entire film industry in Germany.
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania will develop a new state tourism concept in 2016. The most crucial goal of the first phase of the development was to measure the economic importance of the tourism industry in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
DIW Econ was commissioned to calculate the economic importance of the tourism industry in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in cooperation with the German Institute for Economic Research in Tourism (dwif).
DIW Econ has examined the economic significance of the gypsum industry in the southern Harz region. The study, commissioned by the Bundesverband der Gipsindustrie e.V. (Federal Association of the Gypsum Industry), concludes that the three locations of the companies CASEA GmbH (Ellrich), Knauf Deutsche Gipswerke KG (Rottleberode) and Saint-Gobain Formula GmbH (Walkenried) provided a gross value added of more than 92 million euros as well as more than 1,300 jobs in the Southern Harz region in 2014.