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Tourism in Lucerne has almost fully recovered from the pandemic in 2023

After massive pandemic-related losses since 2020, the tourism industry in the Lucerne-Lake Lucerne Region is almost back to the level of the pre-Covid year 2019. In the city of Lucerne, 20.8% more guests stayed overnight in 2023 than in the previous year and 3.9 percent fewer than in 2019, while the region as a whole saw 12.7 percent more guests than in 2022 and 0.8 percent more than in 2019.

According to the Federal Statistical Office, 1,328,369 overnight stays were recorded in the city of Lucerne last year - an increase of 20.8 percent compared to 2022, or a decrease of 3.9 percent compared to 2019. The Lucerne-Lake Lucerne Region as a whole - the cantons of Lucerne, Schwyz, Uri, Obwalden and Nidwalden - recorded 3,944,351 overnight stays. This is 12.7 percent more than in the previous year, and 0.8 percent more than in 2019. In 2023, this exceeded expectations, which had predicted a share of 85% for the city and 93% for the region compared to 2019. 

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