Córdoba, (EFE).- The president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, has predicted this Wednesday that, if “nothing strange happens”, the region will exceed “the historical record” of 32 million tourists this year in 2019, before the pandemic.
During his visit to one of the Patios de Córdoba, Intangible Heritage of Humanity, the Andalusian president pointed out that Andalusia is “in luck in the service sector and the tourism sector” after a Seville Fair “that has beaten all the records, generating a lot of economic activity, even above 800 million euros”.
In addition, the May Bridge, “traditionally also important in Andalusia”, has broken the record of “82% general occupancy” and “more than 620,000 overnight stays”, without counting certain establishments “that have not yet been able to register”.
Some “very positive” data that for Moreno means that the tourism industry “is operating at full capacity in Andalusia”, in such a way that “if nothing strange happens, nor any adversity”, this year “we are going to, foreseeably, beat the historical record of 32 million visitors”, he has predicted.
Patios de Córdoba, tourist reference
Moreno has highlighted the importance of the Patios de Córdoba as a “reference” that every year “attracts the attention of tens of thousands of citizens from all over Spain and the whole world” and that is one more “icon of the image of Andalusia and from Spain”.
On the other hand, he has warned that tourism in Andalusia “is going at a very good rate” but there are “clouds” on the “horizon” such as “drought”, which “is slowing down a part” of the Andalusian economy, especially “the primary sector, the agro-industrial sector, livestock and agriculture”.
In this sense, he has indicated that “all administrations” must “put their shoulders together” and, after highlighting the “three drought decrees” in Andalusia that involve “300 million euros of emergency works”, he has asked the Government “to in a very special way” that “invests decisively and decisively” in water infrastructure in the region. EFE