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 […]
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Sepi disembarks at Air Europa appointing two directors and negotiates the future CEO
The purchase of Air Europa by Iberia, after the rescue of the first, is taking shape. The airline owned by the Globalia group has formed a new board of directors, after receiving an injection of 475 million from the Government, through the strategic companies rescue fund managed by Sepi. Iberia’s condition to buy Air Europa […]
Endesa reaches an agreement with the unions to lay off 10% of its workforce: 1,200 employees
Endesa has reached with all its union forces (UGT, SIE and CCOO) an agreement for voluntary departure for up to a maximum of 1,200 employees during the next four years, framed within the process of energy transition and digitization set by energy in its new strategic plan. This agreement implies the accounting record of a […]
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 Government approves with two months of delay a rescue to the hotel industry without direct aid
The Government has approved this Tuesday, almost two months after its announcement, a rescue plan for hotels and businesses that aims to alleviate the critical situation these businesses are experiencing due to the impact of the pandemic, but which these sectors consider insufficient because there is no direct aid, which was what they asked for. […]
Spain also suspends its flights and the United Kingdom is isolated due to the new strain of coronavirus
At the end of last January, when the coronavirus was spreading across China but had not yet reached Europe, British Airways decided to suspend all its flights with the Asian country. It was the first airline to take this measure, which was to last until March. By then the virus had already roamed Europe, and […]
The hoteliers who left Galicia on foot arrive in Madrid 600 kilometers later to claim aid
More than 600 kilometers on foot and two weeks later, have finally arrived in Madrid Antonio, Rafa, Juanjo, Rafael, Eddy, Lorena, Dani, Antonio, Marta, Sebastián, Marcos and Josà © have arrived in Madrid today. This group of hoteliers, who began their pilgrimage to the capital to claim aid for the entire sector. The delegation arrived […]
Ban on flights to the United Kingdom: third blow to the air sector in the middle of Christmas campaign
The decision of several countries to ban flights to the United Kingdom supposes the third great blow to the tourism sector, with the airlines, again, in the front line. The coup comes in the middle of the Christmas season, which is usually the busiest time after the summer, and with the airlines already in a […]
Gerard Piqué enters the ‘fantasy football’ business as an investor in a company in the sector
The footboll fantasy it continues to gain followers and in addition to entertainment, it is also establishing itself as a business alternative that attracts more and more investors. The last to arrive in this industry is the FC Barcelona player, Gerard Piqué, who has become an investor in the company Sorare, one of the firms […]
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 […]
