49% of Hotels Will Open in August

Canary Islands

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The Prime Minister announces that the archipelago could have 60% of the previous year's occupation in December.

49% of the hotels will be open in the Archipelago this August, while the rest still have not announced a date. That is the data the president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, provided during the control session held in the regional Parliament on Tuesday. In his speech, Torres has opted for "realism and prudence", for the uncertainties and doubts that still exist with the outbreaks of the Covid-19, and for the "enormous difficulties that commercial aviation activity carries."

However, he has also stated that there are reasons to be "optimistic". As an example, he has cited the case of La Gomera, where "80% of tourist places are covered this August", basically with insular and peninsular, although their accommodation offer has nothing to do with that of other islands such as Lanzarote. "We hope to provide better than expected data for July and August, which will be key months to test the response of the sector. We must make an appeal to our own consumption, prepare ourselves well for the high season and control outbreaks, although everything will depend on the pandemic. A vaccine is needed as the definitive weapon to beat it”, explained the President of the Canary Islands after a question from Nueva Canarias (NC).

In December of this year, yes, Torres said that it is possible to reach "60% of the tourist activity that occurred in the same month of the previous year", mainly due to the prospects of partial recovery of international tourism. In this July, a total of 450,000 seats have been verified with the airlines, which represents 30% of those from the previous year (1,458 million) in the same period.

President Torres predicts a greater recovery in December because Europeans are now expected to rule out other destinations at greater distances. He also noted that the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has chosen the Canary Islands as a benchmark for quality and health safety in the symbolic reopening of tourism carried out with the recent trip of a delegation of authorities, experts and journalists.

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