The regions of Lleida Pyrenees They have closed this Sunday a december bridge with a average hotel occupancy of 60%. The figure is significantly lower than what the Patronat de Turisme de la Province of Lleidaalthough the manager of the entity, Julio Alegrehas made a balance “positive” based on previous years. There have been 17% more overnight stays in relation to the same period as last year and 30% more than in 2019. However, it has been an uneven occupation, with occupations that have been between 35 and 40% during the first week and about 80% during the second.
The board of trustees creates the effects of the changing weather and the announcement of the arrival of bad weather in the second part of the bridge has caused some cancellations of reservations, argues the Diputació. Even so, it is when the greatest influx of tourists has been registered in the Lleida Pyrenees, with occupancy levels that have been around 80% on average in the areas close to the ski resorts and bordering on full occupancy on foot. of tracks, has detailed the board of trustees to ACN.
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Regarding the influx of people in the ski resorts, the figures are different. On the one hand, the Diputació de Lleida affirms that the six winter complexes in the province have sold “more than 100,000 ‘passes“, which is the second best record for these dates, only surpassed by 2005, when 115,000 passes were dispatched.
Four of the six stations in Lleida are managed by the Railways of the Generalitat of Catalonia (FGC), which this Sunday has issued a statement with the figures harvested during these holidays: 22,782 people have bought a pass in Boí Taúll, Espot, Port Ainé and Tavascán. Baqueira Beret and Port del Compte, privately owned, have not specified their influx levels.
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Together with La Molina and Vall de Núria, also publicly managed, the FGC complexes have received 47,019 visitors since the start of the bridge, a figure that is slightly higher than that of the same period in 2021, when around 500 fewer ‘passes’ were sold .
The maintenance of the figures “confirms the recovery of snow tourism activity in the territory”, since they are 19% higher than those of 2019, FGC highlighted. Despite the good results, they recall that the comparison has been made with long weekends “of shorter duration” than this year’s, which lasted nine days.