The tourist sector in Spain begins to look with concern to the summer. The slow rate of vaccination of the population, the maintenance of the regional perimeter closures to avoid a fourth wave of the pandemic after Easter or the end of the extension of the ERTE on May 31 suggests that tourism needs something […]
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The de-escalation in tourism: health corridors between autonomies?
The tourism sector is one of many that, given the announcement of the upcoming relaxation of restrictions after the fall in infections in the Valencian Community, is calling for its own de-escalation plan. The problem, in this case, is that tourist reactivation necessarily involves the lifting of barriers to mobility, that is, by disable perimeter […]
The tourism sector uses the United Kingdom as an example and offers its network and hotels to accelerate vaccination
The tourism sector, which before the pandemic was the economic engine of Spain and is now one of the hardest hit by the health crisis, demands that the Government accelerate the vaccination process so that 70% of the population before the summer I have already been vaccinated and offers its entire network -hotels, travel agencies, […]
The black year of tourism: its weight on GDP falls from 12.4% to 4.3% and they see the recovery already towards summer
The tourism sector confirms its worst forecasts for the year that has just closed, with a loss in billing of more than 106,000 million euros (a drop of almost 70% compared to 2019) and already It is no longer the engine of the economy, as the weight of the sector over GDP has fallen from […]
The Costa del Sol, like forty years ago
No one expected good news, and it has been. “Disastrous”, “unusual”, “debacle”. The president of Tourism Costa del Sol, Francisco Salado, has spared no adjectives to describe the average fall of 75% that has marked the 2020 tourist exercise and has put into perspective the destruction that the pandemic has caused in the sector by […]
Tourism in the Canary Islands collapses in high season, while Catalonia and Madrid disappear as destinations
The month of November has also been devastating for tourism in Spain: the arrival of 456,956 international visitors has been registered, 90.2% less than in the same month of 2019, and total spending has decreased by 90 , 8%, to stay at 467 million euros, as shown by the sectorial data provided this Tuesday by […]
Exceltur figures the hit of tourism in the Valencian Community in 2020: 11,000 million less than in 2019
That the effects of the pandemic had hit tourism more intensely was a well-known reality in the sector, paralyzed for most of the year by mobility restrictions imposed on practically the entire world. But Exceltur, the association that integrates the 34 most relevant companies in the sector, has finally put the numbers of the bump […]
The Balearic Islands were the most expensive national destination in summer and the fourth least visited by Spanish travelers
The reopening of the borders in summer had very moderate effects in the Balearic Islands compared to the rest of the autonomous communities. The archipelago came out the third quarter of the year being the fourth community by the tail in the percentage of visits by national residents, and that despite the fact that this […]
Globalia and Barceló agree on the definitive merger of Halcón Viajes and Ávoris
The Globalia and Barcelo groups have ratified this Friday the merger agreement of their travel divisions: Halcón Viajes and à ?? voris, respectively, thus creating a tourism giant. Both have a turnover of almost 4,000 million and together they will become the first travel agency in Spain in terms of sales volume, ahead of Viajes […]
The collapse of tourism causes a 40% drop in cigarette sales linked to the sector
The collapse of tourism derived from the pandemic has caused a drop in cigarette sales related to the sector of 40%. That is in areas closely linked to tourist activity and which this summer have suffered a drop in visitor arrivals Foreign sales have been cut almost in half. This was stated today by Agueda […]