MRIDA, 2 (PRESS EUROPE)
The Directorate General of Tourism estimates a global occupancy of 46% and 2.8 nights booked on average in the various accommodation establishments of the region for this bridge of the Constitution, according to data from the report prepared by the University of Extremadura for the regional executive .
The employment forecast in the main cities is 76% in Plasencia, followed by Cáceres with 69%, Mérida with 60% and Badajoz with 45%.
As regards the type of accommodation, hostels would have a higher occupancy rate with a forecast of 60%, tourist apartments 56%, hotel accommodation 47%, rural accommodation 41% and campsites 10%.
The report also reflects the average number of nights booked by type of accommodation, with rural accommodation standing out with 3.1 nights, followed by tourist apartments with 3 nights, hostels with 2.7 nights, hotels with 2.1 nights and campsites with 1 night.
For tourist areas, Cceres and its surroundings stand out with 2.9 nights, followed by Plasencia-Extremadura in the north with 2.8 nights, Mérida, Badajoz and surroundings and Zafra-Extremadura in the south with 2.5 nights.
The director general of Tourism highlighted the “good forecasts” for tourism and the hotel sector. “Our restaurants will have a very high level of occupancy both for the Bridge of the Constitution and for the advancement of family and corporate events before Christmas,” he stressed, while acknowledging the “effort that businessmen from tourism and the the hotel industry has done during the pandemic”.
TOTAL OVERNIGHT STAYS ACCUMULATED FROM JANUARY TO OCTOBER 2022
In the first ten months of the year, a total of 3,138,973 hotel and non-hotel overnight stays were recorded in Extremadura. This figure represents an increase of 22,718 more overnight stays than in January-October 2019, the pre-pandemic year, months in which a total of 3,116,255 overnight stays were recorded. According to official data from the National Institute of Statistics (INE) analyzed by the Extremadura Tourism Observatory.
Martín Simón, highlighted that the data for 2022 are better than those of the entire historical series which were those of 2019, according to what he said, “thanks to the effort” of the entrepreneurs and the September tourism promotion campaign of the Council of Extremadura of 1.2 million euros to position the region this autumn-winter.
