Hotel overnight stays reached an all-time high of 47.8 million in August, the highest figure ever, according to the INE’s Coyuntura Hotelera. In the first eight months of the year as a whole, overnight stays have increased by 5.6% compared to 2023 to 252.6 million bookings.
This is despite the fact that domestic tourism has not been as buoyant as last year, and hotel nights booked by them fell by 0.3% compared to 2023. But the boom in international tourism continues and overnight stays have risen by 5% so far this year. Although on average hoteliers have invoiced 147 euros per room, there are big differences depending on the category of accommodation.
For 5-star hotels the figure has exceeded 311 euros per day, while for 4-star hotels the figure falls to 156 euros. And three-star hotels were billed at an average of 127 euros. According to the INE, the tourist spot with the highest turnover per occupied room was Marbella, where the average price of a hotel was 312 euros in the month of August.
While travellers resident in Spain chose Andalusia, Catalonia and the Valencian Community as their destination, foreigners chose the Balearics, Catalonia and the Canary Islands in August. The tourist destinations with the highest number of overnight stays in August were Barcelona, Calvia and Madrid.
The British continue to be the leading tourist arrivals, accounting for 25% of visits in August. Travellers from the United Kingdom have been leading foreign hotel overnight stays in Spain since January 2022. Germans accounted for 16% of total bookings. They were followed by tourists from France (12%), Italy (6.6%) and the Netherlands (5.3%).
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@oouoo oouoo how was Puro Beach Club, as Ballinerio is cheaper!
I had lunch at one of the two beach clubs in Illetes today, I am assuming, I can't name it here A bottle of Agua con gas, a small bottle was €10, a quick check online showed it for sale in Aldi Santa Ponsa at €0.27 cents This is outrageous and probably explained why less than 20% of the tables were empty. Restaurants like this have no sympathy from me and no more business from me
Mallorca hotel owners have been laughing all the way to the bank since Gabriel Escarrer bought his first hotel in Cala Mayor ( 1956) . Yes Zoltan they are multi nationals now but they built their base here and helped put Mallorca on the world map. Maybe not such a good thing nowadays ( note how the yanks are moving in, though the Chinese seem to have slowed down). Obviously that history bought them plenty of clout with national and local government . Google tells me tourism is 13% of Spain's GDP so they have to listen. I agree with dumping all inclusive, it was never made for this market in the first place.
A lot of these hotels are multi nationals and the profits are invested in other countries,so the government and local government should stop bowing down to them, and also ban all inclusives once and for all.