Given mask mandates and other restrictions, tourists are looking for fresh air and places that are not too crowded. "Urban" tourism is paying the price, and Luxembourg City is no exception.

Figures from the Luxembourg City Tourist Office (LCTO) confirm this. The number of visitors at the LCTO between January and July dropped by nearly 20% between 2020 (22,820 visitors during this period) and 2021 (18,304). In 2019, the LCTO welcomed 83,824 people over the same period, more than four times as many.

But it is not all doom and gloom either. The month of July 2021 saw an 18.53% increase in visitors compared to last year, with 7,735 tourists, 318 of whom took a guided tour. Most of them were German (25.48%), French (17.34%) and Dutch (17.05%).

But there is also hope: the four days around the Assumption public holiday, from 12 to 15 August, saw a total of 1,406 visitors pass through the doors of the LCTO, an average of 351.5 people per day compared to 249.5 for the month of July. Here too, the French, Germans and Dutch were the most numerous.

This story was first published in French on . It has been translated and edited for Delano.