Normality begins to be predominant also in tourist figures. In the hotels in Benidorm, 57% of the clientele is foreign and that, pandemic through, is synonymous with the restart of the recovery, although with nuances, since the hotel sector insists that there is still a long way to go.
This was explained this Wednesday by the hotel management HOSBEC, which, data in hand, has ensured that the international markets are going "from strength to strength" in those preferred destinations: 57% in Benidorm, 41% in Costa Blanca, 47% in the province of Valencia and 14% in Castellón. "The British reign in their star destination, Benidorm," they point out.
However, they explain that both Benidorm and Valencia province -where the figure for foreign tourism is 47%- still have "a long way to go" to certify a recovery of activity to levels prior to Covid-19, since they affirm that Benidorm still has a deficit of almost 7 occupancy points, while Valencia is 5 points behind the 2019 data.
The positive statistic, and it is the one they make the flag of, is found in the hotels on the Costa Blanca, as they assure that they have made this the first destination that "has given the sorpasso to the 2019 data": this first fortnight May 2022 registers an average hotel occupancy of 70.3%, three points above the 2019 figure.
However, from HOSBEC they emphasize that there is still a lot of work to be done and that "the recovery has not been achieved". For this reason, they point out that "all the support is necessary" because, they consider, the tourism sector will be "the one that pulls the Spanish economy the strongest in the current situation."
This is also corroborated by the AENA figures published this Wednesday by Turespaña, which places the Valencian Community as the second autonomous community, only surpassed by Catalonia, with a greater year-on-year increase in the number of international passengers, with an increase of 962% in the past month of April.
In this fourth month of the year, a total of 6.96 million passengers from international airports entered Spain, which means multiplying by eight those who arrived a year ago, driven by the good Easter campaign.
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