In the course of the years the tourism has become an essential economic sector. Several millions visitors small boat tours, walks, boat tours, coach tours and cycle tours do in the Spreewald every year. Public festivals, show workshops, local history showrooms and Muses, provide change in our area rich in tradition.
The peak travelling times is May within the months until August. But increased autumn and winter offers of the hosts and leisure suppliers shall give the visitor the possibility of learning to know the Spreewald also in the cold season.
The overnight stay supply has risen strongly within the last few years. More and more guests remain several days or weeks in the Spreewald. Not only visitors from Germany belong to it. From abroad e.g. from the Netherlands Holland or England has for the Spreewald for themselves also guest discovers.
So about 2.2 million overnight stays (not guest arrivals) were counted in the following housing ways in the year 2003:
- Hotels, pensions, health cure, Rehabilition clinic
- Youth hostels
- Holiday dwellings, holiday room, holiday cottage
Holiday and regular camping
Alone in the holiday and regular camping 560.000 overnight stays were counted approximately.
About 3.8 million day visitors (without overnight stay) spent your leisure time in the Spreewald. With a sales volume of 360 million euros the Spreewald tourist industry takes a top rank in Germany. With about 170 cultural, tourist and sporting events like the Spreewaldmarathon, the Lübbener Kahnfahrnaechte ( small boat night tours) and the "Spreewälder Gurkentage" (events all about the cucumber) tourists are attracted. Hikers, canoeists and cyclists primarily find ideal conditions with a charming landscape here in the Spreewald.
Numerous restaurants offer typical food, e.g. fish in Spreewald sauce. And of course the Spreewald cucumbers are well known to far about the national boundary.
A common aim of all offers is, however, an ecologically compatible, conservation oriented tourism. The Spreewald stands due to its uniqueness under the protection of UNESCO and is world cultural heritage. So the visitor and of course also this one should responsibly and consciously trade natives here in dealing with nature!
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