"Just a nice Oktoberfest!"

100.000 more guests than during last year Oktoberfest's first week drink 200.000 litres more beer and eat 60 oxens.

With the end of the first week of the Oktoberfest, it is time for the halftime-resumé – and it’s a success: 3.3 million people visited the Oktoberfest and drank almost 3.3 million liters of beer, as aoopsed to 3.2 million visitors in 2008, who drank 3.1 million liters of beer. More people bring more hunger and so the number of eaten oxens rose from 56 to 60. The numbers of sold non-alcoholic drinks rose 15%.
Still, the global financial crisis took its toll and mostly hit souvenir-vendors and caroussels. “People are setting priorities on what to spend their money for,” said Gabriele Weishäupl, head of the Oktoberfest management. And priority number one is obviously beer.
Munch mayor Chritian Ude joked, that this was the only press conference, where he was happe to have no big news to announce at all. No scandals, no bad news, that it was “Just a nice Oktoberfest!”