It’s a start to the season with very high hotel occupancy rates in Sant Antoni and, in some areas, even better than in 2019. In the absence of official data that will arrive at the end of June, the initial impression of the hoteliers of Sant Antoni and Bahia is that the season has started with occupancies between 70% and 80%, exceptional figures.
Despite such favorable impressions, the president of the Hotel Association of Sant Antoni and Bahia, Ana Gordillo, contains her enthusiasm and prefers to remain cautious: “What worries us, more than occupancy, which we assume will be good, is the income statement at the end of the season, which will be affected by the general increase in costs due to inflation“. A cost increase that, according to Gordillo, has translated into an “inevitable” price increases.
Gordillo made these statements on exiting the annual assembly of the association that brings together the portmanyin hoteliers and the tourist zone of Cala de Bou. An assembly that took place yesterday at the Hotel Oku in which Gordillo was renewed as president, Juanjo Planells as vice president, and in which entrepreneurs shared their problems and interests.
“The feedback we are receiving at the beginning of the season is quite positive. What the associates have told us is that we are predicting a good year. We will have a high number of tourists, especially in this area. We are satisfied”, declared Gordillo, who explained that even some hotels “are already full”.
The British are back in Sant Antoni
The spokeswoman for the hoteliers pointed out that one of the main factors that have helped such a positive start is the fact that “it has not only been the hotels that have opened earlier, but many complementary offers have also contributed to lengthen the season“. And she valued that “in the end, we are all in the Ibiza brand, and if we get to work, we get active early and we all row as one, it benefits us”.
Good results that, at least in the area of Sant Antoni and its bay, also depend on the British market, which this year is responding well: “Despite some problems, especially with passport controls at airports, and some delays in planes, the British tourist has returned and we are happy to recover what is our main market and 30% of the island’s occupancy”.
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