不景気のため、スペイン人の夏休みの休暇を出来るだけ安く過ごす工夫、海岸に弁当持参、飲み物持参、休暇は短く、海外旅行は控える、親戚の家に宿泊など
VIDA&ARTES
Vacaciones de tartera
Los españoles buscan formas baratas para pasar el verano
Las estancias se acortan y baja el consumo
Cada vez más recurren a casas familiares o el pueblo
Lluís Pellicer / Raquel Vidales 12 AGO 2012 - 00:18 CET
casa de los parientes en la costa o la vuelta al pueblo.
Fuente: Observatorio de la Industria Hotelera Española y Mº de Industria, Energía y Turismo. / EL PAÍS
LIFE & ARTS
Tartera holidays
The Spanish looking for inexpensive ways to spend the summer
The stays are shortened and low consumption
Increasingly turning to family homes or town
Lluís Pellicer / Raquel Vidales 12 AGO 2012 - 00:18 CET
Lunch boxes, lunch boxes, folding tables, sun, beer in the cooler and kidneys destroyed by folding chairs. Fancy a holiday as before? Judging by how they look the beaches this year, feel hungry or not, it seems like it touches. Despite the generally discouraged by the crisis, or perhaps because of this, the Spanish are reluctant to run out a few days break and seeking ways to at least qualify for a getaway. Apartments shared by several families, home exchanges, short stays, minimum output abroad or, better, in Spain packages all inclusive or cruise to control spending, the beach bar or smell and, of course, the appeal of the house relatives on the coast or around the town.
Source: Observatory of the Spanish hotel industry and Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism. / COUNTRY
Although some people can not even afford these luxuries. With an unemployment rate of 24.63%, wage cuts and very bleak prospects for the autumn, there is a bulk of Spanish who has decided to stay home. Half of both locals and 35% of Barcelona will not leave town this summer, as barometers made by the councils of these cities. And in both cases, the proportion of citizens who can not go on vacation is far superior to last year. The rest, those who can set aside a portion of their income to it, fits your budget, and others about the limit you need to avoid surprises when they come back and meet with the extracts of the credit card.
Professor and Director of the Observatory of consumption Esade school, Gerard Costa, points to three different behaviors between those who decide to go home a few days because they have saved enough throughout the year. According to a report by the Centre, 25% of these tourists want to spend half of what was left last year. "This is militarizing spending. Minimum spend nights out or go home with friends or relatives. This is the case of the family of Barcelona and Galicia to be staying at the home of a cousin and later this is going to the Catalan capital for a few days at home, "says Costa.
Many families they manage, in fact, with that option: harnessing the home of relatives on the coast or spending the summer in the village. Or combining both. "We used to rent an apartment a week in Valencia. This summer, no way. Seven days with my sister in Alicante for children to go to the beach and the rest of the time, the people of my husband Leon, "says Conchi, a psychologist at Palencia who just lost his job in a counseling program to stand in the Castilla y León.
Imposing cruises and all-inclusive to control spending
Another 25% of those who do are going away, according to the report Esade, studying all last minutes for maximum savings. And the remaining 50% is for the tourists who can still afford luxuries like long trips. And these, in crisis, in no way want to splurge. "This is a much more rational spending. These tourists can go to Thailand two weeks, but ask the all inclusive at the hotel to avoid surprises, "explains Costa.
So with the all inclusive, it is easier not overdoing it. And that benefits some sectors. For example, the cruises. "For 600 euros you can spend a full week traveling in a boat and you take the vacation bug. It is practical and comfy for traveling with children. Certainly, the big winners of the crisis are the cruises, "says Rafael Gallego, president of the Spanish Federation of Travel Agents.
The season is half and still no official data on the progress of the month strong, which are July and August. Even so, the tourism industry and manages some figures that corroborate these trends. Let us, for example, to Benidorm. Hotel occupancy in July has remained about the same as last year, with 89.9% versus 90.3% last year, but has not been through the Spanish, but mainly to the increase in visitors from the UK. Specifically, the number of domestic overnight stays has dropped 7% in the first half and 4% in the second, while the British have risen by an average of 12%. And the worst thing is they have been less, but that they will spend a minimum.
Resent the bars: paellas are asked four people for eight
"We are noticing all sectors: restaurants, shops, discos, bars. You just have to look out to the beach to see that it is full of fridges! "Says Yolanda Pickett, manager Benidorm Tourism Foundation. "Spanish people generally keep coming because we are a close destination and can be reached by car, but stay fewer days, so low occupancy in hotels, and especially spend a lot less," he continues.
A similar situation is seen in the Andalusian coast. "People are bringing their own food to the beach and are allowed to eat at the beach bar just a special day. Not only that, when they decide, then go and ask you a paella four shared between eight people, "said Norberto del Castillo, president of the Andalusian Federation of Employers of Beaches. Do you save up on sunbeds? "Well, maybe this business is being less affected. A hammock is where you can be more time for less money, "he says.
The Catalan coast is saving of time the season by an unprecedented increase of Russian tourists. This year we have reached 50% more travelers from this country, as hoteliers, who choose the Gold Coast, northern Maresme and Costa Brava, Lloret de Mar. especially Salou, for example, every summer receives an army tourists from other communities, especially of Aragon. This year, however, suffers from the crisis of national tourism. And worse, their hotel just can not make predictions because they know if these travelers will end up coming. "There are coastal areas that still have the bulk of their unreserved seats from day 20, and this is mainly due to reserves at the last minute," says Joan Molas, President of the Spanish Confederation of Hotels and Tourist Accommodation. That is the case of hotels Empordà, in the heart of the Costa Brava, with the reservation book with 40% of available rooms from day 20 years ago something unprecedented.
Uncertainty is crushing the nerves in the tourism industry. "People are scared and not decided until the last moment. Before, they used to make reservations two months in advance and now do not even know how it will end August. This is difficult to manage rates and deals "laments Felix Sobrino, director of an office in Madrid IA Travel agency-Zeppelin. The immediate consequence of this trend, explains Joan Molas, is a reduction of room rates to try to attract the tourist dives Internet looking for last minute bargains.
The decision to hirea trip is delayeduntil the last moment
The acid test is passed, however, the destinations in which the proportion of domestic tourism is often overwhelming. This is the case of the Cantabrian coast or rural tourism areas of the interior of Castile and Leon. There, says Molas, the fall has been "spectacular", of between 30% and 40%. "The unemployment rate was already high in 2011, but this year it is over, and the fall in consumption and anxiety about what might happen are taking a toll. The stays are shorter, to the point that some establishments in coastal areas have decided to cut open the season in June instead of Easter, "explains Molas.
If the citizens of Barcelona more than Madrid travel is largely because the proximity of the Costa Brava allowed to make short breaks. But these are becoming more petite. "We are seeing people who are going to spend four days at the beach goes alone two. And the people who were two, now goes up and down the Costa Brava Barcelona, "says consultant partner Bruno Hallé Magma Turismo.
Generally, stays are shortened. The passing away from home the whole month you have not worn, but now through the fortnight beginning to be science fiction. The average beach destinations is eight days, according to travel agents. "It shows up in the apartments. Prior reservations are not admitted under a week. Now even days are rented, "says Felix Sobrino.
Predominate getawaysshort or weekendsin nearby destinations
The manager of the association of hotels and restaurants Costa Brava Centre, Sabrià Martí, the same tendency. Explain that there are the same movement on the roads, and even on the street looks almost the same people every year, but either to and from the city, advantage homes or second homes of relatives or make stays "superbreves" in hotels. These short trips, sometimes almost lightning, explain why the number of leisure trips has hardly changed with the crisis. According to the survey of tourist movements of the Spanish Familitur, the figure is maintained with minor variations since 2005.
Austerity extends even among those who do not suffer the effects of the crisis. "Some customers think that gives them trouble sticking a feast while others can not pay the mortgage," says Antonio Maria, president of Horeca, the hospitality sector employer in the province of Cadiz.
The strange thing about all this is that the campsites, which initially may seem like a cheap alternative, not are benefiting by this crisis. While in Europe choose this type of accommodation between 20% and 40% of those who go on vacation in Spain only makes 1.5%. "No custom. Here are many offers from rural tourism beach and holding back growth. Also keep in mind that, unless you're in a tent, not so cheap leaves have a caravan or rent a bungalow, "says Ana Beriain, president of the Federation of Employers of Camping and Holiday Parks.
Those that are taking advantage of the crisis are the companies that manage Internet home exchanges. Several symptoms reflected. "The profile of users is changing. Before, most families were between 40 and 50 years, with home ownership and seeking longer stays abroad. Now more and more young people are shorter stays, even on weekends, and 70% of trade occurs within the country itself, "reveals Sergio Cleavage, HomeForHome director.
All for forgetting a few days of the crisis. And it does not go very far and explore exotic locations. There are, as you can see, many ways to escape from routine with a tight budget. "Better to spend a little money on yourself, at least one and a reed pinchito beachfront to finish giving it to a psychologist. We must cleanse the mind to endure whatever comes, "Antonio Maria judgment.
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