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July with only 25% of reserves and rely on last-minute tourist

P. Amaya Many
GION free beds and in the hope of last minute bookings. This is the scenario that is emerging in Avilés hotels for the first month of the summer season. The hotels surveyed (some refuse to provide any information appealing to privacy policies their respective owners) have only 25 percent of bookings for the month of July. August, they say, is still far. And is that tourists are coming, and are increasingly claiming the bed on the fly. The crisis, according to openly acknowledge the professionals, "it shows ... and hard. "

Luzana The hotel offers 70 rooms. After the renovation, again make available its six plants. According to the reservations it has made so far in July will have a 24 percent occupancy and 25 in August. "The occupation has fallen a lot. There are weeks that we are almost white and that we've lowered prices last year, "explained a downtown hotel worker avilesino. "More and more customers have happened. For example, in June, people who are walking the Camino de Santiago. Also in July of last summer had a lot of people passing through, "he added.

Also in the Don Pedro (25 rooms) note the drop in reserves with a view to summer. "July and August, for now, it raises very bad. There are reservations, but for short, and with whom we have not come to occupy half of the rooms, "said an employee of the hotel located on Fruit Street. "At Easter already noticed the crisis fell short of forecasts," he concluded.

With better prospects facing the summer in the Hotel de La Villa, but has only 16 rooms. "For now, we're not complaining. If current reserves are held in July we will have a 60 percent occupancy. In August we hope to hang the poster in full, is almost 65 percent occupied. We look in the summer, Easter was a failure, "explained from the establishment located in the Plaza de Álvarez Acebal. Tourists have already formalized their reservation at Don Pedro is derived primarily from Madrid, United Kingdom and Germany. Among

Avilés hotels that do not provide data on occupation are those that offer more beds, the Palace Ferrera and Villa de Avilés, though its clientele is usually dominated by tourist and convention business, the less intense during the summer months.

Despite the lack of reservations, hoteliers are confident avilesino hang the poster in full in August, one month of the year with more tourists in the city.
Source: http://www.lne.es