50% of Mallorca hotels will remain open in November, 25% in winter
Resorts being urged to stay open longer
María Frontera says more hotels are staying open longer this winter. | Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter
Palma17/10/2022 15:02
Around 50 percent of the hotels which are members of the Mallorca Hotel Federation (FEHM) will remain open in November, and around 25 percent all winter, according to the president, María Frontera, today.
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Once half term in Oct is over, most people are thinking of Christmas. So the number of people looking for holidays drops till after Yuletide, even though Nov can be very nice. Jan Feb are when people are thinking of something.
I think it's great that there's increasing demand to sustain hotels in the winter. I'll miss the predictable gloom and doom warnings of a massive fall in bookings, usually published around August or September, referring to bookings for November - March. On the bright side, this year's autumn gloom and doom narratives have already been printed and died on the vine, bookings are already up, comparable to last year's gloom and doom season, and it seems even a few resort hotels might have a decent winter. And even Brits might participate this time. But that isn't looking very optimistic at present. We shall see.
No one wants to go on holiday to a ghost town so it's important that there are restaurants and shops open as well. In many resorts you can't even find a place to get a coffee in the winter. Maybe they should concentrate on two or three resorts. If tourists know that there will be places open and some life they would be more likely to come. Many hotels have closed already - they've made a fortune this summer and now expect the government to pay their staff's wages for 5 months. I