The Ministry of Tourism predicts that: Travel Bonus program mobilizes up to €25 million in the Valencian Community this year. The program, which aims to deseasonalize the tourism sector in the low season, has already collected more than 200,000 applications. Benidorm and Calp are two of the most popular destinations.
According to statistics announced this Thursday, Turisme Comunitat Valenciana has registered in the first month of the 2024 Travel Bonus program A total of 5,336 travel reservations in the first half of the yearcorresponding to the first period of the program, that is, January 16 – June 3Except for Holy Week.
In this edition, average amount reaches the following amount per booking: 605.78 eurosIt made it possible to mobilize a total of 3,232,447 euros in the first month of the year alone for trips concentrated in the low season in the tourism sector of the Valencian Community. The forecast is for more than €25 million of funding to be mobilized for the sector. For the entire year 2024.
For the council member of this district Nuria Montes“This booking rate, very similar to the previous edition, once again strengthens the Travel Bonus as a measure to deseasonalize and stimulate tourist employment in the Valencian Community.”
In this regard, Montes said that the Travel Bonus expansionary impact on other areas of the economy, “like trade or transportation, so its indirect impact goes far beyond tourism.” And “your benefit may increase three or fourfold,” he confirms.
According to the head of tourism, “near We distributed 53,000 users and 15,000 bonuses“This figure increases with new shipments every week.”
Nuria Montes emphasized that “this edition has been well received” and reiterated that “the demand rate this year is very high”, judging from the more than 120,000 appointment requests recorded in the first hours of the program’s launch. -most 205,892 current applications”.
To access this assistance from the Generalitat, applicants must: Being of legal age and registered in the Community. Registrations started on January 2 and will continue until the next date. 30 November 2024.
It should be noted that candidates applying for the 2024 Travel Bonus program must make a choice. stay of at least three consecutive nights You can choose to make a 50% discount on the reservation amount up to a limit of 350 Euros.
2024 Travel Voucher User Profile
Regarding the profile of the traveler benefiting from the 2024 Travel Bonus and based on the results of the first month of this edition, the majority preferred h.hotel as accommodation spend the night, accumulate 70% of total The average payout for bookings made in January is over 605 euros.
He is being followed Camping with about 16% of bookings; rural accommodation with 9%; and tourist apartments and houses, which accounted for 5% of the total bookings made in the first month of the year.
Regarding the most requested time for travel, May is the month with the most reservations.This month was followed by March with 2,282 reservations, April with 1,312 reservations, and April with 1,075 reservations.
In this edition, there are a total of 874 companies registered in the program; Of these, approximately 35% are travel agencies, 31% are hotels, and more than 19.5% are rural accommodation businesses. AND The most popular destinations this 2024 will again be Benidorm, Calp, Peñíscola, Elche, Altea, València, Morella, Gandía, Dénia and Alicante.
This new edition of Travel Bonus Starting budget 12.5 million euros. In the last edition of the program, which refers to 2023 and allocated 15 million euros, a total of 41,997 reservations were recorded with 54,700 free codes.