GER100 Lecture Notes - Beamter, Invented Tradition, Maximilian I Joseph Of Bavaria
16 Mar 2013
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The analysis of tourism trends must also be set against two pivotal characteristics of the german market. First, for the last quarter of a century germany has been a net exporter of tourists and tourism- related capital and second, consumption of german tourism products and experiences has been dominated by domestic visitors. Throughout the 1990s the ratio of overnight stays of domestic visitors to foreign guests has remained virtually constant at 8:1 at the federal level . White-collar workers were the first post-war middleclass stratum that regularly spent a substantial part of their disposable income on travelling and vacations. Already in 1956, 44% of all white-collar workers in private enterprises and 45% of all public officials (beamte) spent a vacation of at least five days, about double the rate of the average west germans . Only the financially privileged members of the academic professions enjoyed more frequent leisure travel.
