The sightseeing he has had a good behavior one more summer. At least that’s what the numbers say. The hotel occupancy figure in Asturias during the month of August, which exceeds that registered in the same period of 2019 when the pandemic of the COVID-19, will allow to close a good tourist summer in the Principality within a “very hard” year for the sector, according to the president of the OTEA employer, José Luis Álvarez Almeida.
“It has been a good summer, but it will not be a good year because the numbers are for twelve months,” Almeida warned after recalling that, as a result of the pandemic, all hotel establishments in the region were closed for 158 days in a row, from November 4 of last year to April 10, 2021. In this sense, the president of OTEA has asked to lift “as soon as possible” the restrictions that still weigh on the hospitality industry that prohibit the consumption of bars and limit the number of diners.
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Álvarez Almeida has presented together with the rest of the members of the Tourism Board of FADE, which represents 95% of the supply in Asturias, the results of the survey carried out on the July and August campaign among 300 establishments in the region with 12,900 beds. The data collected reflects that the occupancy in July was 76% with an average stay of 3.79 days and a price increase of 4%, while last year these figures stood at 65% occupancy, an average stay of 2, 35 days and a price drop of 9%. In the case of August, the occupancy was 92% in Asturias as a whole, with an average stay of 4.68 days and a price increase of 6%, figures that exceed those of last year when the occupancy in that month was 79% with an average stay of 2.74 days and a price drop of 11%.
The eastern region, with 95%, led the occupation during the month of August while in the case of July the highest figure was registered in Oviedo, with 81% and, for September, the forecasts point to 49 % occupancy in Asturias as a whole compared to 32% in 2020.
The origin of the tourists has been mainly national with Madrid, Castile and Leon, Catalonia, Basque Country Y Andalusia as the main source markets, while restrictions on travel from Germany or the United Kingdom have reduced the presence of foreigners, limited to travelers from France, Central Europe, the Netherlands or Belgium.
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