Juan Molas, president of the Spanish Confederation of Hotels and Tourism Accommodation (CEHAT) said “In 2013 we hope to leave recession behind in the tourism sector.”
In the last two months, industry expectations have changed radically. Before Easter the occupancy forecasts were terribly pessimistic, but now that the high season is in full swing, hardly anybody doubts that this summer is going to be better than the last for Spanish tourism destinations.
The influx of international arrivals has had a lot to do with the conflicts affecting other countries that compete with Spain for sun-seeking tourists, such as Egypt or Turkey, which are causing more German and Russian nationals to choose Spain instead.
Both factors (which have been recurring for the last few years) will combine to conjure a 2013 miracle for the country’s number-one industry, which has come back strongly from the initial effects of the international financial and economic crises.
