Anger in the hotel sector over the veto of the United Kingdom to Spain: “nobody has gone to see the ambassador to take chest of our data”
Updated Sunday,
9
may
2021
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20:54
Hosbec regrets the lack of “diplomatic pressure” to turn the Valencian Community into the “Portugal of the Mediterranean” due to the low incidence of the coronavirus
In the tourist industry of the Valencian Community the alarm has risen again. The UK decision not to put Spain on the safe destination label for the travel of its citizens has been like a jug of water fra in a hotel sector that was already preparing to warm up engines and reopen its doors waiting for tourists, after staying many establishments closed for months due to restrictions in the face of the pandemic. How is it possible that the Valencian Community, with even better health data than those of the United Kingdom, will be harmed by the high incidence of the coronavirus in Spain?
This is the paradox by which the Valencian tourist sector has been dragged, and that already warns that may jeopardize the discreet summer season that was expected. The Valencian Community has been weeks with a cumulative incidence at 14 minimum days, in the lower part of the table of 50 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. In Spain as a whole, however, the incidence is soaring above 200 cases.
Of ah that from the Hosbec hotel management it claims ” diplomatic pressure “so that the Valencian Community can be sold in the United Kingdom as the”Portugal of the Mediterranean”. The neighboring country has been given the green label, which allows British tourists not to have to quarantine when they return to their country or submit a negative test before returning from Portugal.
With data from 5 May, the Valencian Community maintains a cumulative incidence to 14 days of 43 cases, compared to 58.9 in Portugal or 48.6 in the United Kingdom itself. “Nobody has gone to see the ambassador of the United Kingdom in Spain to take chest of our data”, laments Nuria Montes, Secretary General of Hosbec, in statements to EL MUNDO. “And we have been without mobility for many months to achieve this scenario.”
It is ms, puts the emphasis on the behavior of the British tourist, who “comes to the Costa Blanca but then does not travel through the peninsula”. In addition, this traveler concentrates basically in very specific areas: in addition to Costa Blanca, Balearic Islands, Canary Islands and Costa del Sol.
The complaint of the sector, against the Government of Spain but also against the Valencian, is also explained because for the tourist sector in the Valencian Community, the British is the first market, with a share of 29.7%.
In other words, without the British tourist, there is no recovery of the Valencian sector, because in areas such as Benidorm and the Costa Blanca, this market directly represents 40% of the total. It must be borne in mind that, according to the statistics of Turisme Comunitat Valenciana, in 2020 the arrival of British tourists fell 79.4% compared to 2019, which meant a loss of 78.2% of total expenditure, which was reduced to just over 537 million euros.
If in the coming weeks the Government of Boris Johnson does not change his mind and keeps Spain with the Red Lantern, “a large part of the hotel and hospitality offer will not be able to open in summer,” Montes insists. “In Benidorm, for example, there is a lot of business linked to the British market”.
According to a Hosbec survey, hotels accumulate losses of 80% in these months of pandemic, which rise to 100% in half of the cases because they have not been able to operate a single day. of ah that the employers insist to the Generalitat in a specific rescue plan for the hotel sector of 200 million on loan. Because, for the moment, the light is not quite visible at the end of the tnel.
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