MADRID (Reuters) - Spain anticipates that travel industry should skip back in the spring after a stoppage brought about by the Omicron variation of COVID-19 and for generally guest numbers this year to be more than 66% of record 2019 levels, a senior government official said.
"The 2022 assumptions are great," Tourism Secretary Fernando Valdes said uninvolved of Madrid's FITUR the travel industry congress. "What we have is an extraordinary longing to travel," he said.
Spain was the world's second most visited country in 2019, with a record 80 million vacationers visiting the country the year prior to the pandemic struck by true figures. The travel industry arrived at just 33% of that number in 2021 as lockdowns and travel limitations forestalled a critical recuperation, however that was as yet around 55% higher than in 2020. For inoculation levels and less travel limitations permitted global travel to Spain to speed up in the last quarter of 2021 to 64% of its pre-pandemic levels, albeit the fast spread of the Omicron variation set the brakes on the recuperation once more.
The southern area of Andalusia is getting ready to praise the Easter week in April with its reality well known parades following two years of dropped celebrations across Spain, with different locales expecting to continue their own parties, for example, the San Fermin bull-running celebration in Pamplona. Significant Spanish inn networks, for example, Melia have seen that appointments are on the ascent and the travel industry specialists are estimating an increment in movement from European nations like Britain, Germany, Holland and France throughout the spring and summer.
Albeit the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) said for the current week a full worldwide travel recuperation was not normal before 2024, its Secretary-General Zurab Pololikashvili told Reuters he was "extremely hopeful" about the next few months.
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