hospitalizations of tourists in Europe

That’s been a concern of mine also. Not just tourists for me but also their residents. How full are hospitals in France, Germany and the CR??? We are there first 2
1/2 wks of Oct….Helps knowing just in case we need medical care. A continuing issue in parts of the US for sure!

I don't know a source for available-ICU-capacity figures (though I'm sure they exist), but the hospital-occupancy data on the Our World in Data website might be just a bit useful to you. Maybe. Use the first pull-down box to change the type of data being displayed.

France ICU occupancy : 45%
France fully vaccinated: 68.6%
Per Tousanticovid August 31, 2021.

The fourth wave is going down according to the French news broadcasts. Numbers of new cases are steadily decreasing.

This website shows German hospital statistics, including the number of Covid patients.

I have never seen statistics broken down by residency status, though.

I have thought the same thing for awhile now. Are tourists, specifically Americans, bringing COVID with them to Europe or catching it while in Europe. I would think it would be big news if that were happening. I've seen one story about a couple who brought it with them from US. That's it, I cannot find anything else on the subject.

Research the breakthrough infection rate among vaccinated individuals, and the number of US tourist in Europe to get an idea of how US tourists are impacting hospitals.

Very encouraging news on the fully vacced in France. The lowest states in the US only achieved half of what has been done in France.

Threatening to disrupt well-earned vacations and aperitif on a café terrace did the trick, though some still opted to take a PCR tests every few days instead. The appointment website crashed before the President had even finished his announcement. However, as of today, the tests will no longer be free for citizens or residents, so certainly more people will opt to get jabbed.

This is an interesting question. You can buy travel-health insurance (like Geoblue) in case you do catch it and end up in hospital overseas.

I don't think you're going to find this level of detail for a variety of reasons...but, let's start with the premise. The overtaxing of hospitals was much more salient rationale before the vaccination campaign was launched, which gave a lot more breathing room and slack capacity for hospitals. When hospitals were overrun in places like Bergamo and the whole city was sealed off, it would be hard to imagine why tourists should be at the forefront of minds of people who were barely treading water (they weren't even tracking the deaths of segments of their own population accurately but did the best they could, I'm sure many of the figures were imputed). Now, there is worry about the delta variant and covid economic after-effects which also make it unlikely that you'll see prioritization of aggregating data on non-citizens (assuming it's being tracked accurately in the first place).

Historical data on general, pre-covid injuries and deaths is uneven and periodic. Most injuries and fatalities were caused by vehicular travel, ski accidents, drownings and the like. Data for selected countries and limited time periods was collected, such as this piece of research: https://ec.europa.eu/health/ph_projects/2001/injury/fp_injury_2001_frep_10_en.pdf. Getting data aggregated for all of Europe would be an enormous undertaking (think just about the reporting anomalies between well-resourced and non-well-resourced countries)....if it hasn't been done up until now on general injuries, it's doubtful you will find covid-specific data now....perhaps it will be there one day, but there is always a few years data lag on any substantive research (we are not through with the pandemic to look at it retrospectively yet, anyway).

In 2005, a very general estimate of 3,800 deaths of tourists was made (doesn't even differentiate between US and non-US tourists), so maybe that gives you some perspective. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15814378/

Other, semi-relevant readings:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16707347/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19796099/

Statistics cannot be relied upon to provide an accurate picture. In the UK for example the figures are provided for hospitalisations with COVID and this has been the method since the outbreak however it has recently been reported that the majority of COVID cases in hospitals have been contracted whilst in hospital. Many patients are being admitted to hospital for non-COVID reasons and then contracting the virus once there so actual hospitalisations due to COVID are signifcantly less than the official numbers suggest.

I have absolutely no doubt that the UK is not unique in this situation and similar skewing of the numbers is taking place everywhere.

What a great, thoughtful response from Agnes! Just recognizing that, for an EU country, for example, anyyone visiting or working from another EU country is also "a foreigner".