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 […]
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Retail sales plummet in November despite Black Friday
Neither Black Friday nor the Christmas campaign managed to encourage commerce last November, at the height of the second wave of the pandemic. Retail sales fell 5.8% in the aforementioned month compared to the same month in 2019. It, even though Spain was in the middle of the Black Friday campaign. Compared with the previous […]
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 […]
Hotel nights plummet 84% despite a 17% drop in price
The collapse of tourism was visibly noticeable in the middle of the second wave, in the month of November, when nights in hotels fell 84% compared to last year. With half of Spain with restrictions on mobility, hotel establishments received only 1.1 million travelers, with a total of 2.8 million nights recorded, compared to 18 […]
The ‘ghost’ closure of Tenerife: tourists will be able to enter and now also non-residents who are going to spend Christmas
The closure of the island of Tenerife, decreed on Wednesday and which comes into force as of today, perfectly illustrates the regulatory chaos that has sometimes occurred throughout this pandemic. This measure it was decreed last wednesday, arguing that it was to control infections. Shortly after, it was decided to make an exception for tourists, […]
The Canary Islands closes Tenerife but does allow entry to tourists staying in hotels
A tourist from Catalonia or Madrid may travel to Tenerife, despite the fact that yesterday the closure of the island was decreed, in the next two weeks, but a resident of Gran Canaria who wants to spend Christmas with his family, who lives on the island, will not be able to do so. A Norwegian […]
The Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands, Madrid and Catalonia, the autonomous regions most affected by the crisis, with GDP falls of over 13%
The Savings Banks Foundation (Funcas) foresees that the island regions of Balearic and Canary Islands, the Community of Madrid and Catalonia be the autonomies with biggest drop in GDP in 2020, thus becoming the most affected by the economic crisis derived from the coronavirus pandemic. Specifically, it is estimated that Baleares is the community most […]
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 […]
Six regional governments have already decided to freeze their salaries, contrary to the rise of the central Executive
The autonomous governments of Andalusia, Aragón, the Balearic Islands, Cantabria, the Canary Islands and Madrid have already communicated that the salaries for 2021 of the senior positions of their Executives will not experience any change with respect to those of 2020, in contrast to the salary increase of 0 , 9% that the Government of […]