Friday, September 16, 2016

At this time last year, I was preparing to visit Munich, Germany, to attend the world famous Oktoberfest. This southern Germany festival consists of listening to traditional German music while seated in large beer halls with thousands of people from every corner of the world while consuming mass amounts of German beer and food. I knew this would be a weekend of having much fun with friends and other students abroad, but I had no idea of how massive Oktoberfest in Munich really is until I saw the official numbers from this past year.

According to the official page of Oktoberfest, oktoberfest.net, 7.2 million people attended this three week event, consuming 6.9 million liters (one liter equals one beer) of traditional Bavarian Oktoberfest style beer which have a much higher content of alcohol compared to your normal beer. At approximately ten dollars per beer, around $69 million worth of beer was sold.

Beer isn't the only Oktoberfest icon though. Famous German dishes such as sausages, schnitzels and much more are sold at every stand. In this year alone, people visiting Oktoberfest consumed 549,899 pieces of chicken, 140,225 pork pairs, 44,320 kg of fish and 75,456 pork shanks.

These numbers are absolutely stunning and almost unfathomable. It's amazing that it is even possible to hold such a massive festival. Having been one of the most fun weekends of my life, I plan on going back to Oktoberfest in Munich as soon as I possibly can.

Oktoberfest (2016). The oktoberfest statistics. Retrieved from http://www.oktoberfest.net/oktoberfest-statistics/.

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1 comment:

  1. A very interesting post about Oktoberfest and the large money maker it is for Germany. However, Oktoberfest is a German holiday held in its own country, so I am not sure that this would constitute international business.

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