Madrid (EFE) pandemic, and it did so in practically all of Spain.
Among the exceptions, according to the occupancy survey in this type of accommodation released this week by the National Institute of Statistics (INE), the Canary Islands received 8.35% fewer travelers staying in this type of business between January and March of this year than four years ago.
The data also indicate that in Asturias 7.99% fewer travelers stayed in these establishments and in Cantabria 4.31% fewer, although in both cases the fact that the INE does not show some figures (in this case the occupancy of the campsites in Asturias and hostels in Cantabria last quarter) to protect statistical secrecy.
The same occurs with Galicia, where the number of travelers staying in the different types of non-hotel tourist accommodation shot up by 181.98% between the two periods, but in all probability the fact that the INE, for the same reason, did not make public the data of the hostels in the first quarter of 2019 and now yes.
On the other hand, there are strong increases with all the data available in Navarra, where customers of this type of establishment increased by 94.84%; Basque Country, with 74.14%; and Madrid, with 67.16%.
To a lesser extent they increased in Andalusia (29.60%), the Valencian Community (28.20%), the Balearic Islands (27.64%), Extremadura (26.28%), La Rioja (22.85%), Aragón ( 21.29%) and, already below the average (18.13%), in Castilla y León (11.68%), Castilla-La Mancha (6.00%), Murcia (5.52%) and Catalonia (4.35%).
Andalusia, favorite destination for non-hotel accommodation
While in the first quarter of 2019 the favorite community for travelers looking for apartments, campsites, rural tourism establishments and hostels was the Canary Islands (26.8% of the total), ahead of Andalusia (19.6%), this year it has been the other way around (20.8 vs. 21.5%).
The third place has also changed, since if in 2019 Catalonia (13.4%) surpassed the Valencian Community (11.2%), now the opposite is the case (11.9 compared to 12.1%).
Seven communities have improved their weight in the field of non-hotel tourist accommodation, with Madrid in the lead (it has grown by 2.5 percentage points to 8.4%), ahead of Andalusia (1.9 points), Galicia ( 1.3 points) and the Valencian Community (1.0 points), while the Canary Islands have lost 6 points and Catalonia 1.6.
Apartments and rural accommodation
Regarding tourist apartments, Extremadura and Navarra doubled their pre-pandemic figures, 110.99 and 108.95% respectively, and Galicia stayed close (94.77% more), while the Canary Islands fell (-8.35%), Catalonia (-6.93%), Cantabria (-2.65%), Castilla-La Mancha (-2.05%) and Aragon (-1.38%).
Despite the decrease, the Canary Islands continues to be the preferred destination for those looking for an apartment for their getaways, with 37.7% of the total, followed by Andalusia (24.6%), the Valencian Community (11.8%), Madrid ( 7.6%) and Catalonia (4.9%).
In rural tourism establishments, six communities improved their pre-covid data: Navarra (50.68%), Andalucía (45.67%), the Balearic Islands (34.84%), Aragón (29.68%), the Basque Country (23 .97%) and Castilla-La Mancha (15.26%), while Murcia and Madrid registered falls of 50.54 and 37.19%, respectively.
Four communities attracted more than half of the lovers of rural accommodation between January and March: Castilla y León (18.5%), Cataluña (12.8%), Andalucía (11.7%) and Castilla-La Mancha (10.0%).
Campsites and hostels
In the campsites, the differences between territories are enormous, since for example in Galicia they received 334.38% more tourists than four years ago and in Cantabria 114.29%, followed by far by Andalusia (58.87%). , the Basque Country (31.81%) and the Valencian Community (29.51%).
Camping tourism in the first quarter of the year was a matter of three, since Catalonia (30.4%), Andalusia (23.8%) and the Valencian Community (22.3%) accommodated three out of four people who They opted for this modality.
Great differences are also registered in the evolution of the occupancy of hostels, which in Asturias has multiplied by more than 11, in Madrid by 8.5, in Navarra by seven, in La Rioja by four and in the Basque Country by almost three .
In this case, Madrid (23.3%) is the community that welcomed the most travelers staying in hostels during the first quarter of the year, followed by Andalusia (18.0%), Catalonia (11.6%) and Galicia (10, 2 %).
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