Benidorm 2nd most-visited place in Spain this August despite COVID-19
Benidorm has waved goodbye to its most complicated August on record.
Leading hotel association HOSBEC announced that Benidorm saw a 73.5% drop in hotel activity.
This means:
- Over-night stays dropped from 1,400,000 in August 2019 to just 370,000 in August 2020. An 86.9% drop.
- International tourists fell 80% compared to last August.
- Spanish tourists fell from about 160,000 in August 2019 to around 70,000 in August 2020.
- Just 75 hotels remained open, compared with around 140 in August 2019.
- In the 75 hotels open, just 40% of August 2019’s fleet of hotel staff stayed working.
- August 2020 saw 55.5% of available Benidorm beds occupied, compared with 93.3% in August 2019.
- Average stays dropped from 5 days to 3.5 days.
Despite this, Benidorm remained Spain’s second-most visited destination.
Only San Bartolomé de Tirajana in Gran Canaria had more over-night stays this August, with 436,000 compared to Benidorm’s 370,000.
See more info (in Spanish) here.
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