Tourism, in the first week of ‘opening’: searches increase, but UK deflates
Updated Tuesday,
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may
2021
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13:18
Since yesterday tourists from third countries considered safe can come without PCR
The main Spanish tourist destinations look since yesterday with hope to the United Kingdom, because since Monday travelers from this country can enter Spain without the need for PCR, as announced on Friday in Fitur the president of the government, Pedro Sánchez.
However, and although yes, there has been an increase in searches for flights from different markets that send tourists to Spain, expectations have deflated, given that our country is still on the list of risk countries of London, our main issuer. Spain is in the amber zone, which forces its citizens to do a quarantine on their return.
From Cehat, the hotel management, point out that they still do not have reservation data these last days, because it is early to assess. From the tourism intelligence company Mabrian point out to EL MUNDO that yes they have detected a 35% more searches last day 20 (when the EU announced the opening of tourism to third countries) from the main issuing markets and to Spain to travel in summer.
Between the 18th and the 20th, in full Fitur, the increase was 60%, but it is a global figure, for all markets and for travel in the next 11 months.
ForwardKeys, a global travel data company, also sees an improvement, driven by demand for bookings from Scandinavia and the domestic market.
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However, in the current context, in which searches do not always end in reservation, and reservations themselves end in cancellation, so far the opening announcements have not been reflected in more visits.
In fact, Spain is waiting for the United Kingdom to put us in the green zone. The main Association of tour operators and travel agencies in the United Kingdom, ABTA, recalled yesterday that British travelers to Spain are still subject to quarantine.
Speaking to the EFE Agency, a spokesman, Sean Tipton, explained that tour operators such as TUI or Jet2.com “they will not send tourists” to Spain until the Foreign Office in London changes its recommendations.
For now travel to Spain is discouraged except for ” essential reasons”, with the exception of The Canary Islands, although the archipelago is also in the amber zone of the risk map.
This list of safe countries will be revised in early June and Spain trusts to be already green. Meanwhile the activity will be relatively minimal. The TUI tour operator will operate only “a small number of flights” to Lanzarote, Tenerife and Gran Canaria and Jet2.com and Jet2holidays do not plan any trip until June 24, according to Efe.
According to ForwardKeys ‘ latest ticketing data, key issuing markets such as the UK “remain below average, but are expected to pick up once restrictions are eased, while tickets issued for future trips to Spain from Sweden and Denmark “have eclipsed 2019 results since mid-April.”
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