Easter holidays will be affected by the crisis

The opening of temporary hotels will be like in 2004, according to ESADE. A great number of hotels are usually open during this week. However, this year will be reduced a lot due to the dates and the taxes. When the Easter holidays are in April, there are more tourists and the travel agencies can sell their services easier. When it is in April, it helps to reduce the big problem of seasonality, as Francesc Valls said.

The increase of costs and taxes has also affected this Easter holidays. In order to reduce the costs, the tourists are changing their way of travelling: they travel for less days and try not to spend a lot of money. For example, they will bring their own food, instead of paying a restaurant each day. They also try to reduce the cost of the transport. They go to places, where some friends or familiars live, to avoid the cost of the accommodation.

In Ester holidays we can find some different kind of tourism: white or snow tourism, which this week will have luck because of the amount of snow that has fallen this year; green tourism, which is located in rural places and islands, which have a lot of good offers; city breaks, which in Spain will highlighted Barcelona and Madrid and out Spain, Paris, Roma, Amsterdam and Istanbul, and finally religious tourism, which attract a lot of tourists during this week, above all in Andalucia.

We are in an intermediate period between an update in the tourism model, changing from the traditional one to a new one, where culture, business and thematic parks will highlight.

As we can see, the crisis has affected the tourism sector. A 64% Spanish people will prefer traveling in Spain this year in order to reduce their budget, meanwhile a 36% will go abroad.

It is also true that in the last years, people are used to buy their holidays in the last moment, waiting for the last offers. So..we have to wait and hope that this situation improve.

What do you think about that? Is it a shame to waste this opportunity of increasing the tourism due to the month?

Thankss!!!