No 899 Monday 27th Dec 2021 - Sunday 2nd Jan 2022
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On behalf of all the staff and advertisers at The Leader Newspaper we wish all our readers a very Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year
NO MORE DO WE SEE THE GREEN SHOOTS OF SUMMER
lightly less than a year ago, when, like now, many hotels in the Costa Blanca were closed, because the pandemic had once again confined us to our homes, with the curfew and perimeter closures, the crisis had everyone baffled.
fear of traveling also playing a major part in the situation?
In 2008, after the real estate bubble burst, hoteliers were able to lower their prices a little, a measure that seemed to work, but this crisis is completely different, with the
It seemed that the nightmare was over, the telephones were constantly ringing in the booking centres, holiday websites were on fire, and many hotels even filled
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We recently had the green shoots of summer and autumn, when the tourism sector was once again able to look to the future with a measure of belief.
their rooms for Christmas and New Year two months before the scheduled holidays. But then Covid decided to invent a new variant, omicron, and everything was turned on it’s head, at least for the hospitality sector, an industry that directly employs many tens of thousands of people on the Costa Blanca.
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