Occupancy in Catalan hotel accommodations stood at July one 6.6% below of what was registered in the same month of 2019 with a total 43,275 active people, still far, therefore, from precovid levels. In Spain as a whole, occupancy in these accommodations is only above pre-pandemic levels in the two archipelagos, at a slightly higher rate a l’1%according to figures from the National Institute of Statistics (INE).
At the end of last July he was in Spain 16,437 hotels open, 4% less than three years ago, before the pandemic, although in terms of number of places the figures are similar at both times (around 1.86 million). In Catalonia, the number of open establishments reaches 2,579, 6.2% lesswhile in the volume of places the decline is more moderate (of 1.2%).
In terms of employment, all the establishments accounted for by the INE in the country as a whole add up 277,829 workers, 1.7% less than at the end of July 2019when there were 282,603 people active in the sector.
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The six major tourist receiving communities (Andalusia, Balearic Islands, canaries, Catalonia, Valencia i Madrid) concentrate 56% of the hotel establishments, but in terms of number of places they cover 81.5% of the total of the Spanish establishments and in terms of occupancy, 85.1%.
The only community that currently records figures higher than those of 2019 in all parameters is the Canary Islandswhere is 5.6% more of open hotels (up to 564); 3% more vacancies (255,835) and 1.2% more active employees (48,481).
In the Balearic Islands they are ahead both in places (366,061 in total, 1.5% more) and in the number of workers (63,323, 1.1% increase), but not in the number of establishments, which drops to 4.7% (there are 1,278 hotels currently open). Madrid is, among the six communities with the most tourism, the one with the worst records: the number of open hotels fell by 9.1% in July of this year compared to the same month of the previous year, up to a total of 1,041 establishments open.