The Spanish island of Mallorca is particularly popular with German holidaymakers. In the corona pandemic, however, they stayed away. At Easter 2022 the tide will turn.
Mallorca is expecting full hotels at Easter for the first time since the outbreak of the corona pandemic a good two years ago.
The occupancy rate will be over 85 percent between April 8th and 18th, taking into account last-minute bookings, according to the hotel association of the Spanish holiday island (Fehm). Despite the Ukraine conflict, this is only three percentage points below the level of the last Easter week without Corona in 2019, said Fehm President María Frontera.
In the case of higher-class accommodation and luxury hotels, occupancy will even be above the level of three years ago, despite higher room prices compared to 2019. “One can practically speak of a total reactivation,” noted Frontera. This good development is primarily due to the increased demand from abroad – above all from visitors from Germany, but also from England and Scandinavia.
The spokesman for the German tour operator Tui, Aage Dünhaupt, can confirm this. “Many hotels will be fully booked in the coming Easter week – this also applies to the Robinson Club Cala Serena in the north of the island, which will thus return to the occupancy rate from before Corona,” said Dünhaupt of the German Press Agency (dpa). One expects “almost 40,000 Tui guests from Germany” for Mallorca in the Easter holidays. Due to the good demand, Tui Fly launched additional flights from Düsseldorf, Hanover, Frankfurt and Stuttgart at Easter.
The high occupancy rate at Easter is all the more remarkable as 85 percent of all hotels on Mallorca are already receiving guests in April. That is five times as many as at the same time last year (17 percent), emphasized Frontera. In Mallorca, the high season begins on May 2nd. With the exception of three hotels, which will then carry out a complete renovation, all island accommodations will be open in May, according to Fehm.
Recovery is immensely important to the Balearic economy. Before the pandemic, tourism directly and indirectly provided a good 41 percent of the national income of the Mediterranean islands. This proportion had fallen to 14.2 percent in 2020, with a slight recovery to 27.7 percent in 2021. As part of a “quality offensive”, the left-wing regional government wants to further increase the sector’s income in the coming years – but at the same time protect the environment more. This may also be possible with fewer tourists than in the record years of 2018 and 2019, when around 16.5 million visitors were counted.
Source: Stern
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