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Approximately 1,400 tourism professionals from 43 countries made the trip to this year’s annual Germany Travel Mart (GTM) held in the city of Rostock. This was the first occasion that the event had been hosted in the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany) and 20 years since the unification of Germany. After recording a 2 percent increase in overnight stays during 2008, the worldwide economic crisis affected Germany with falls in Q1 of 2009, business travel particularly badly affected. Petra Hedorfer, Chief Executive Officer of the German National Tourist Board (GNTB) commented that despite the pessimistic forecasts for 2009, Germany expected a fall of only 1 percent in international tourism in 2009, better than that of their European neighbors.
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