Seeing an upsurge in its inbound tourists in 2018, a representative of the Austrian National Tourist Office said it received over 1.9 lakh Indian tourists – an 8.6% rise over the last year. The Vienna Tourism Board added that it had also received 7.7% more Indians in 2018. Of its inbound tourism numbers, Vienna saw 7.5 million arrivals from across the globe, 6% over the year before. According to the board, about 63,000 Indians visited across its 428 hotels.