Valencia and Castelló, the only Valencian tourist destinations that improve the data of 2019

The hotel employer Hosbec presented yesterday the summary of hotel activity during 2022 and confirmed that it did not recover the good figures harvested in 2019, since last year there were 6% fewer travelers and 8% fewer overnight stays than before the pandemic .

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
30 January 2023 Monday 11:23
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Valencia and Castelló, the only Valencian tourist destinations that improve the data of 2019

The hotel employer Hosbec presented yesterday the summary of hotel activity during 2022 and confirmed that it did not recover the good figures harvested in 2019, since last year there were 6% fewer travelers and 8% fewer overnight stays than before the pandemic . In its annual summary, the business association also shared that only the cities of Valencia and Castelló de la Plana have registered a "positive behavior" compared to 2019, while destinations with a high holiday component such as Benidorm or Peñíscola have left a 13.7 and 18% hotel overnight stays, respectively.

However, this does not prevent the capital of Valencian tourism par excellence from being the fifth Spanish destination with the highest volume, surpassed by Barcelona, ​​Madrid, San Bartolomé de Tirajana and Adeje. In addition, Hosbec points out, it is the third peninsular destination only surpassed by the two large cities. Valencia appears here in the 14th position.

The HOSBEC Monitor 2022 makes special mention of Alicante, where the urban and holiday product had a 9% drop in overnight stays, although the association warns that "it must be taken into account that during these years of the pandemic almost 25% more hotel establishments". According to Hosbec, the wave of the omicron variant is largely to blame in the general calculation, since it canceled "practically all the holiday operations in the first quarter of the year."

They also point out that the personnel employed in the sector has followed the same trend, since the number of workers directly attached to the hotel sector has fallen by 4.8% to reach 15,440 people. However, in those tourist spots with better occupancy and more open hotel facilities, the job market has developed in a "more favorable way." On the contrary, and despite the fall in occupation, in Benidorm and Peñíscola they point out that "only 3.5% of workers assigned to hotel companies have fallen."

Likewise, the hotel entity points out that the Valencian Community continues "well below the Spanish average both in average price and in income per available room". Valencian hotels have prices and income that are 20% lower than their minimum level, which is why they use this figure to explain that there are "more than compelling economic arguments to repeal the 'tourist tax', since its implementation will undoubtedly affect demand and will reduce the competitiveness of the sector to position itself in the economic framework that corresponds to it by volume, investment and importance".