Issue No. 1931
COSTA DEL SOL • EUROWEEKLYNEWS.COM
7 - 13 July 2022
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MARBELLA: Has seen an important recovery in previous months.
ACCORDING to data from the National Institute of Statistics (INE) for July, Marbella has reg‐ istered the highest number of national visitors in the last 12 years, since 2009. June closed with a total of 79,152 tourists staying in hotel establishments, of which 34,100 were Spanish and 45,052 foreigners. Laura de Arce, the general director of Tourism in Marbel‐ la, highlighted that “the drop in tourism in the years of the pandemic is already around 18 per cent, compared to 2019. “That represents a very im‐
portant recovery since in previ‐ ous months these data ranged between an 80 per cent drop in the month of February 2021 and a 45 per cent drop in the month of June 2021,” she added. Regarding international tourism, she indicated that “its recovery is slower, but its data is also improving compared to previous months, and, above all, to the previous year. “The month of July now rep‐ resents a drop of 33 per cent compared to 2019 and an in‐ crease of 130 per cent com‐ pared to 2020.”
Tourism from France contin‐ ues to rise in July, as has been the case in recent months, as well as with visitors from the Netherlands and she added “numbers from Germany show a significant increase, ap‐ proaching the levels of 2019. It is the British that offer slower signs of recovery, due to the restrictive measures that have been suffered in recent months.” The occupancy rate by rooms in July also rose to 66.25 per cent, although this is still far from the occupancy rates of years prior to the pandemic.
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