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DOWN THE NATIONAL TOURIST IN THE HOTELS

In my opinion there is no concern for our city. The decline of Spanish customers to certain hotels is understandable if we take into account that the policy of attracting customers that follows in Hosbec is not attractive to attract them.

On the other hand the hotels of Hosbec are not mainly the main link of the chain of the Tourism sector since this negative business association to the tourist interests of the town bases its presumed campaigns of capture towards foreign countries completely forgetting of the Spanish market.

There are hotel chains, not attached to Hosbec, for example Servigroup, which denote an outstanding number of Spanish customers.

Nothing can hurt tourism to the city because of the problems that may have Hosbec, so CALM !.

HOTELS ANNOUNCE: «THE SPANISH TOURIST RETURNS TO THE RED NUMBER»

Hosbec warned of a 5% decline in overnight stays in Benidorm, with a market share of only 39%

The employers believe that the fall «is not real» and asks to monitor the accommodation without ruling

Even so, the international response allowed to increase 14% of the sector’s employment in the province in the first quarter

Fitur 2017: the great unknown returns to be the national market

The overnight stays of Spaniards fell in April in Benidorm five points and «return to numbers red,» according to the hotel management Hosbec Tuesday. In total, the share of this market in the fourth month of the year was only 38.7%, well below the British, which already accounts for 51% of visitors. And that in spite of having the first great vacation period of the year, Holy Week.

In this regard, the president of Hosbec, Antoni Mayor, emphasized the «good march» of the British market «without any sign of weakness for the Brexit», getting to take ten points and 80,000 overnight stays to the Spaniards. However, Mayor added that the bosses will dedicate «a special follow-up and study to what is happening with the Spanish tourists».

The association considers that most of this fall «is not real» and that it is about tourists who are diverted to the accommodation that is, without regulation. «We have not yet seen the ears» in houses that make unfair competition «, the wolf, but this wolf (the underground economy disguised as collaborative) has come to stay and can produce devastating effects if the public authorities, including the judiciary, Do not dimension the problem in its proper measure, «said the president of Hosbec.

In total hotel occupancy in Benidorm grew by eight tenths last April, to over 88% on average, and the number of overnight stays increased by 4%, totalizing 1,045,000. According to Hosbec data, hotel occupancy during the second half of April fell by 1.8 points compared to last year and stood at 88.5%, although the number of overnight stays increased in the same period, to 525,000 . The reason is framed in the largest open hotel offer, which at the moment is 39,500 places in Benidorm, compared to 38,000 the previous year, according to Hosbec sources.

On the other hand, employment in the tourism sector hit the 255,100 workers in the first quarter of 2017, an increase of 8.2% over the previous year, which is the highest figure since 2011, according to the Generalitat Citing data from the Ministry of Employment and Social Security. By provinces, in Alicante the number of employed in the sector experienced a growth of 14% year-on-year, in a context of increase of 12.2% of the active population, while the unemployment rate stood at 19.4% , 1.3% less than the figure for 2016.

The tourism secretary Francesc Colomer said that «this growth at the start of the year means maintaining, and even improving, the upward trend started in 2016, year in which with 161.00 members we grew by 7%.» Colomer said that «with the festivities of March, Fallas and Magdalena, and taking into account that Easter took place in April, we expect to see a growth of affiliates in branches of the tourism sector.

DOWN THE NATIONAL TOURIST IN THE HOTELS

In my opinion there is no concern for our city. The decline of Spanish customers to certain hotels is understandable if we take into account that the policy of attracting customers that follows in Hosbec is not attractive to attract them.

On the other hand the hotels of Hosbec are not mainly the main link of the chain of the Tourism sector since this negative business association to the tourist interests of the town bases its presumed campaigns of attraction towards foreign countries