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, […]
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Bankinter halts provisions in the last straight of the year and warns: “Mergers bring joy in the short term, but not so much in the long term”
Bankinter won 317 million euros in 2020, 62% less, weighed down by the provisions made to cover the deterioration of its balance caused by the coronavirus. The group improved its credit activity driven by the guarantee programs launched by the ICO for companies with liquidity problems. Despite this improvement, provisions of 649 million made both […]
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 […]
IATA will create a health passport to facilitate mobility around Europe
The air sector Coordination is already being carried out to implement a kind of health travel passport that allows mobility across borders, with the same criteria for all. It is about creating a common system that would facilitate, for example, that a person who has been vaccinated against Covid does not have to take any […]
The airline sector: “A recovery in Easter is difficult. It will be more towards summer”
Before the pandemic broke out, Javier Gándara had his office in the seat x of the flight x of Easyjet that was his turn that day. There were several per week. Today his office is a Zoom screen and he misses all those flights that he missed before. He is the general director in Spain […]
Iberia closes the purchase of Air Europa for 500 million
Iberia has finally signed the purchase of Air Europa more than a year after the announcement of the operation. It will finally be for 500 million euros, and not for the 1,000 initially agreed, according to Europa Press, which indicates that the operation will close today. Iberia, which belongs to the IAG group (which also […]
Samsung’s heir, sentenced to two and a half years in prison for corruption
The heir to Samsung, Lee Jae-yong, was sentenced this Monday in Seoul to two and a half years in prison in a corruption scandal, reports the Yonhap agency, a decision that deprives the South Korean giant of its main leader. Officially Vice President of Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest maker of smartphones and memory chips, […]
The Sheikha who wants to lead world tourism: “Women have better managed the pandemic”
Sheikha Mai Al Khalifa says that if she is elected today as the new secretary general of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), the first thing she will do when she takes office will be to create a museum in part of the space of the Palacio de Congresos de Madrid, a building that was partially […]
Prisa sells its radios in Argentina after “management problems”
Grupo Prisa sold the three radios it had in Argentina, an investment that dated back to 2005 and with which the Spanish media group never finished feeling comfortable. Among the radios sold is Continental Radio, one of the most powerful signal and historic stations in the country. Prisa also sold two FMs, as reported by […]
Barajas will not operate normally until tonight and Aena defends that “all available means” have been used
One week after the storm Filomena forced the closure of the Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport, This still does not work with total normality, although it already works at 90%. The aerodrome will not accept arrivals normally until eleven o’clock this Friday, as there is still a lot of snow and ice, according to Eurocontrol, an […]
