Tourism continues to move upmarket in Luxembourg City. On Tuesday 26 May, the Luxembourg City Tourist Office (LCTO) unveiled a strong 2025 report, marked by high visitor numbers at the main tourist attractions, record activity for guided tours and a surge in international digital visibility. The casemates remain the capital’s main tourist attraction. In 2025, 257,555 visitors visited the Bock and Pétrusse Casemates, with 207,783 visiting the Bock alone. This momentum follows on from 2024, a year already marked by a strong recovery in visitor numbers following the full reopening of tourist facilities.
The Grand Ducal Palace also continues to operate at full capacity. The 439 guided tours organised in 2025 attracted 9,655 visitors, with a 100% occupancy rate. Visitor numbers are down slightly compared with 2024, when 9,773 visitors took part in the summer tours, but the figure remains extremely high.
The real driver of growth now lies in guided tours. The LCTO organised 4,892 of these in 2025, compared with 4,481 a year earlier, representing an increase of over 9%. The summer months were in full swing, with 679 tours in July and 744 in August. German was by far the most popular language, with 1,852 guided tours, ahead of English (1,384), French (916) and Luxembourgish (471).
Establishing itself as a destination in its own right
The Knuedler visitor centre and the ‘Luxembourg Jackets’ teams recorded 180,806 visitors in 2025. This figure represents a 4.76% decline compared with 2024, following a particularly strong previous year. Germany remains the leading foreign market with 43,977 visitors, ahead of France (24,559) and the Netherlands (21,523). Conversely, the number of Luxembourg visitors rose by 13.26% year-on-year.
The hotel sector also confirms this underlying trend. According to provisional figures from Statec, Luxembourg City recorded 646,759 hotel arrivals in 2025, an increase of 9.99%, with a total of 1,150,342 overnight stays, up 5.78%. Several cultural institutions are also benefiting from this momentum. The Mudam saw visitor numbers rise to 121,850 (+12.5%), whilst the Villa Vauban saw a 32.52% surge to 44,645 visitors. The aim for the capital is to gradually move away from being merely a stopover for tourists and establish itself as a fully-fledged urban destination.
On social media, growth remains spectacular. Facebook has seen a 41.3% increase in followers, Instagram nearly 39% and LinkedIn over 73%. The luxembourg-city.com website, by contrast, saw a slight decline, with 1.31 million users and 3.8 million page views, representing a year-on-year decline of 10% and 14% respectively.
