Tourism Board showed its satisfaction tourist data recorded this blessed week It has exceeded pre-pandemic levels in many destinations in Spain.. The Spanish tourism organization reassured that many companies were billing over 2019, although it warned that the costs were also higher.
Juan Molas, President of the Spanish Tourism Board, This Easter, the hotel occupancy rate in our country was between 80% and 90%. With more than two million train passengers and more than 57,000 flights during these holidays in almost all Spanish tourist destinations.
However, he warned costs increased “significantly”especially due to the rise in energy or food prices, which means that “companies’ operating account is not the same in 2019”.
“We paid the same or higher bill as in 2019, but the costs have also increased significantly,” said the head of the Tourism Board, in an interview with Antena 3 collected by Europa Press.
The outlook for the sector is positive for the coming months., because a “obviously good” spring season is expected. All European markets recorded good booking numbers, especially the British, German and French markets, to which the recovery of more distant destinations was added.
Spanish tourism industry due to the loss of the Russian tourism market. war in ukrainecompensated by the arrival of tourists from other regions It will definitively be a year of recovery for the world and for tourism, especially national tourism, “unless there are other extraordinary adverse events.”
Molas acknowledged that business tourism is still down and there won’t be a steady recovery until the second half of the year or the beginning of 2023. Recruitment of this type of tourism is slower, in part due to the implementation of telework and meeting telematics, significantly reducing the business travel of many Spanish companies.
skilled workforce
Molas remembered this despite the fact. made large financial investments in private sector training programsThe fact is that the Spanish tourism industry is struggling to find skilled labor so it has demanded adequate measures from the Government.
As he explains, in areas with established tourism throughout the year, on the islands or in the Spanish Levante region, the labor problem is less because there are permanent staff, “but in other parts of Catalonia, the Costa Brava, Costa Dorada or Costa del Sol is the demand for staff that cannot be met there”.
That’s why the head of the Tourism Board warned that there may be a shortage of skilled personnel in the hospitality industry and hotel industry during the peaks of the high season from July 10 to the start of next summer. the month of September.