Hotel occupancy in the Algarve in June reached values close to those recorded in the same month of 2019, the benchmark year for the sector, before the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the region’s hotel association.
The Association of Hotels and Tourist Companies of the Algarve (AHETA) states, in a statement, that “recovery continuesand advances with provisional data that indicates that the global average occupancy rate per room in June was 75.5%, 3.3 percentage points below the value registered in 2019.
AHETA also reveals that the value is higher than the average of recent years (72.2% since 1996) for this month and that, compared to 2021, the average occupation rises 33.5 percentage points.
The evolution of the world average occupancy per room in the month of June varied from 78.8% in 2019 to 11.4% in 2020 (the first year of the pandemic), to 42.0% in 2021 and to 75.5% in in 2022, according to data from the largest hotel association in the Algarve region.
The Irish and British markets were the ones that showed the greatest increases compared to June 2019. The biggest falls were those of the German and national markets, the note concludes.
Source: Observadora
