“It looks very bad for anyone who hasn’t booked”
The Hotels and the season of summer are not immune to inflation and price increase that Spain is going through in recent times, which has made many people choose to travel in the low season in search of better prices.
For those traveling in summer, however, the forecasts are not goodas explained Gonzalo Bernardos in his last intervention in the Más Vale Tarde program on La Sexta.
The economist and professor at the University of Barcelona explained that “summer looks for hoteliers fantastic and very bad for those who have not booked a tourist apartment or a hotel now, because they are going to pay much more.”
“No one wants to give up a vacation” despite the prices
Bernardos explained in La Sexta that many hoteliers “regret a lot” for not having raised prices last year, even though they did so by more than 10%, for not raising them more. Looking ahead to this summer, prices will be skyrocketing, although that does not seem to have affected demand: Hotel occupancy has risen up to 68% in the low season, and record numbers are expected.
The economist, however, sees the rise in prices as “normal”, since “tourism has gone from being a supplementary activity to being totally essential” and ““Nobody wants to give up a vacation period, even a short one, for anything in the world.”
