Last year they left more than 800 million euros. This applies not only to summer holidays, but also to winter or Easter stays. Referring to the data of the National Bank of Slovakia, the financial company OZIOS warned. According to the company’s findings, in 2018 Slovakia achieved a surplus of more than EUR 400 million in tourism. In the pandemic year 2020 increased to 570 million euros. A year later, however, the situation changed.
“A larger number of foreign holidays in 2021 could still be attributed to the ‘hunger for traveling’ after the pandemic year 2020, in which it was difficult to go abroad. Today we can say that more Slovaks prefer foreign countries over Slovakia, ” He said the chief analyst of Ozios Adam Auster.
According to a financial company, Slovaks spent more than € 800 million more than Slovak tourism from all tourists, according to a financial company last year. Balance of Foreign Trade of Slovakia with Services Tourism is likely to show a deficit this year.
“Apparently, even more Slovaks will travel abroad this year than in the past. Slovaks from holiday abroad are unlikely to be discouraged by bad news about the economic development, ” approached the analyst.
According to him, the advantage of Slovaks when traveling abroad is that they do not have to deal with the exchange of domestic currency for foreign currencies in most popular destinations. The top destinations of Slovak holidaymakers are mostly countries in which the euro is paid. According to the euro area, the membership of Slovakia may be one of the factors in the choice of holidays. “The money that the Slovaks save on the exchange of money is reduced by the final price of a foreign holiday,” He added Auster.
