The people’s paper ISSUE NO. 1832
13 - 19 August 2020
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LET’S NOT GIVE UP “LET’S not give up on the winter without a fight.” This is the optimistic message from Costa Blanca’s hospitality sector which has confirmed hotel occupancy is up with August getting off to a healthier start than July. The region’s hotel association, Hosbec, attributes the slight upturn to the domestic and local market and said in a statement “hotel occupancy is improving in these first days of August.” “The hotel sector of the Valencian Community faces the most strategic
weeks of the tourist season with better data than those recorded during July.” It follows president of the Generalitat, Ximo Puig’s revelation he is “hopeful” about the resurgence of tourism after the coronavirus crisis, although he admits that “it will not be easy.”
August is off to a good start.
He told Europa Press: “There is no plan B, but rather a plan: we are working together with the private sector and with the people who have trusted in the Community.” Hotel occupancy during this first week of August has oscillated between 61 per cent of the hotels on the Costa Blan-
ca, 46 per cent in Benidorm, 44 per cent in Valencia City and 45 per cent in Castellon. It is believed between 10 and 20 per cent of the visitors are foreign tourists, depending on the area, with the remainder likely to be Spanish and expats.
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