Barcelona hotels expect a full house in June

With more than 150 concerts, cultural and gastronomic activities, the tenth edition of the Setmana de les Terrasses returns from June 10 to 19.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
01 June 2022 Wednesday 06:45
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Barcelona hotels expect a full house in June

With more than 150 concerts, cultural and gastronomic activities, the tenth edition of the Setmana de les Terrasses returns from June 10 to 19. Almost sixty hotels in the city will participate in a proposal designed mainly as one more leisure option for Barcelonans but which confirms and endorses the total takeoff of the sector after two years of pandemic hardship.

The Primavera Sound, the return of international tourism (despite the absence of the Asian visitor), the fairs and the congresses have triggered the occupation of June and the rate of reservations for July and August already predict occupations of 85%. The increase in demand has served not only to recover the average prices per room of 2019 but to exceed them.

During the pandemic and with the borders closed, "the strategy of the hotels that opened was to attract national tourism and the drop in prices was considerable," explained the president of the Gremi, Jordi Clos, who added that with the drop in prices , "the level of tourism that arrives is different... but we have reversed that in recent months; by being able to increase prices, many people who are not the clients we want for the city are disappearing." Clos has affirmed that the proportion of international visitors is recovering, especially North American, French and the rest of Europe.

With these optimistic occupancy forecasts for the coming months, the tenth edition of The Week of the Hotel Terraces arrives. "An event that more than 300,000 people have passed through for nine years," said Clos. Organized by the Gremi d'Hotels de Barcelona, ​​the initiative has the collaboration of the City Council.

The Councilor for Tourism, Xavier Marcé, stated that "a hotel is much more than a place to sleep, it can offer many other things, and if we consider a good waiter as a cultural entertainer, a hotel is a cultural center, this is something that goes far beyond the tourist debate".

The hotels participating in this tenth edition offer a wide variety of activities, from a themed week on Egypt (Claris Hotel), to a show of traditional Catalan dance (H10 Art Gallery). Creative proposals such as the Urban Sketching Workshop (Yurbban Trafalgar Hotel) or the BornImprovització Teatral (Ciutat de Barcelona) or sports, music and also family activities. The entire program can be consulted at www.mesqhotels.cat. The bulk of the activities are concentrated between June 10 and 19, "but the terraces are already active and open now and will be later", added Marcé.