Summer is getting closer and closer, we are already in June, and the holidays have never been as expected as now. Children, youth and adults need a break from the crisis produced by the corona, there is no doubt about that.
One year later, the epidemiological situation is very different. The high rate of vaccination is pushing back the number of infections and allows us to see the future with optimism and better prospects than 12 months ago. For this reason, tourism is expected to experience a quantitative leap. Without reaching pre-pandemic levels, estimates suggest that the sector will experience a remarkable recovery that was already glimpsed during the Easter holidays.
According to the B2B platform, reservations have been growing the last few weeks, and people prefer to travel in July, August and September. About Destinations, the United States of America continues on top with 32,21% of the global bookings, in second place we can find Spain with 30,5%. This country has been growing their bookings during the last week, right after the spanish government announced the state alert suspension, even when British Government does not recommend travel to Spain. On the other hand, we can find Portugal in third place with 5,36% of global bookings. This country such as Spain has been expelled from the green list of the British government, due to this situation its reservations have declined. Then in the last positions we could find Greece, Mexico, Italy and Aruba.
Regarding the most reserved cities in each country, we can find that the US has 3 cities: California, New York and Ilinois. Spain continues with Andalucía, Canarias y Baleares, and Portugal,: Faro District, Lisbon and Azores.
The analysis carried out by the platform shows us that now is the correct time for hotels and vacation rentals to make offers and attract guests for longer stays. One way to attract more visitors is offering safe accommodations, with technologies that allows to protect them, nowadays, the contactless technologies are on the top, and most of the hotels and vacation rentals all over the world are opting to buy and apply this tools for their accommodations, the mosts famous and effectives are the Online Chekin and the Self Check in, if you want to know more about it, just click here.
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