Skift Take
What have tourism-dependent nations such as Spain done to deal with the pre-pandemic overtourism problems made explicit throughout 2019’s highs? We haven’t seen much, and stress for a return of some huge lows amidst the increasing optimism.
Jason Clampet
International take a trip to Spain will likely recuperate some two thirds of its pre-pandemic levels in the fourth quarter of this year, Tourist Minister Reyes Maroto stated on Monday, suggesting a post-summer revival in gos to will be sustained.
“Our projection for the last quarter of the year is to recuperate 66% of all global traveler streams that we had in 2019, which as you know was a record year,” the minister stated at an occasion in Madrid.
Foreign travel to Spain has actually been gathering steam in recent months, with visitor numbers increasing more than four-fold in September from the previous year, when COVID-19 limitations annihilated the industry.
In spite of the positive momentum, the variety of foreign visitors in the very first nine months of this year was still below a third of the levels experienced in 2019, when more than 80 million tourists came.
Maroto said the resumption of travel between the EU and the United States would contribute to the recovery of the variety of foreign visitors.
She has said she expects tourism to completely regain those levels in 2022, up from less than 20% in 2020.
(Reporting by Corina Pons and Nathan Allen, editing by Inti Landauro, Robert Birsel)
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