is considered the number one French, English and Portuguese, while Madrid, Palma, Malaga and Alicante are among the top ten favorites.
view of Barcelona Madrid .- In just one year, Barcelona has gone from being the fifth and fourth destination of French and Portuguese, respectively, to be first, to what had become the British. For Italy, Russia and Hungary, this city is his second favorite. All this means that, no doubt, Barcelona is a very attractive city in Europe.
But it is the only English city that is among the top ten destinations for Europeans. They are also Madrid, Palma, Malaga and Alicante. However, domestic destinations are still the favorites. With the economic crisis that still affects most countries, the European population is traveling to places closest to reduce costs. For this reason, reservations are being made less time than last year.
President of Tourism of Barcelona, \u200b\u200bJoan Gaspart, estimated that more than six million tourists visit Barcelona this year, almost a quarter of the number of tourists expected from Spain (23.3 million). Tourism promotion has been key. In total, the resources devoted to promoting strict for 2009 totaled 5.5 million euros of a total budget reaching 34.5 million, 92% of whom come from resources generated by the tourism agency in Barcelona. Model
The tourist resort of Barcelona is segmented. Unlike many cities, Barcelona addresses the different types of tourists it receives. Food programs such as Barcelona, \u200b\u200bBarcelona and Barcelona Shopping Line Sports offer the best in each niche market. A new program, 'Barcelona Premium', will be held with the aim of capturing the high level tourism spending. Thus, Barcelona aims to continue diversifying its offer as a strategy to attract even more tourists. Events like the Tour de France and the Year Cerdá, after the architect of the expansion are other reasons for attracting tourists.
Able to attract major European economies, whose GDP is above average, also ignores the Catalan capital markets like the U.S., Canada and South East Asia, which also seeks role. Visitor profile
The sun and beach tourism makes up only 49% of tourism that the city receives limited by scarce five miles of coastline. Tourism is the business remaining, spread over the rest of the year, especially during the months of May, September and October. Thus, the quality level of tourism that attracts the city is high, considering this group 100% of business travelers and 20% of the holiday character.
In 2008, Barcelona picked up 6,659,075 tourists in hotels, which will add 500,000 in pension and about 8,000 in apartments. 51% were European and 29.2% English. Only 19.8% were from other countries. The average stay last year was 1.87 nights, smaller than previous years. During the first six months of 2009, hotels in Barcelona had an average occupancy of 64.74%. This confirms the decrease in the number of tourists in the city, as envisaged by the sector. Looking ahead to the summer months it is expected that the occupancy level of hotels in the city stand at around 68-70%.
Its architecture and culture is most valued by tourists. The noise and pollution, the worst
Men make up 60.2% of tourism in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bcompared to 39.8% of women. By rank age, tourists from 35 to 44 are the most visited Barcelona, \u200b\u200bfollowed by those between 44 and 54.
global assessment were tourists who visited the city in 2008 was a rating of 7.89 out of ten. What I most appreciated was the architectural supply (with 8.59) and cultural (8.27) and least Noise (a 6.42) and air pollution (6.75). Comparison with Barajas
On 16 June, opened the T-1 the airport of El Prat. This terminal has increased from 30 to 55 million the capacity of passenger traffic. Of the 5,100 million invested, the 2,000 million will be used to build a satellite terminal will increase capacity by 70 million.
In 2009, El Prat airport is the second in Spain to cover the largest number of departures, behind and ahead of Barajas airport in Bilbao, Valencia and Palma.
Of the ten companies that perform more operations in El Prat, only three are low cost, which shows the preference of tourists for the traditional companies.
Although Barcelona is better appreciated by the Madrid European tourists, if we compare the airport of El Prat airport Barajas find:
Passengers: Barajas moved four million passengers in May and El Prat 2.3 million. And in all of 2008, transported, respectively, 50.8 million versus 30.2 million passengers.
Intercontinental flights: In 2008, 20% of travelers Barajas, was for long-haul flights. However, in El Prat only 5.2% were of this type.
Investment: The investment was made in the T-4 de Barajas was 6,200 million euros. In contrast, the T-1 of El Prat has come at a cost of 5,100 million euros.
'Low Cost': In Barajas, 15% of traffic was low cost airlines. In Barcelona reached 40.95% under the weight of Vueling and Clickair companies in 2008, which today announced its successful merger.
Source: http://www.gaceta.es
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