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El negocio del turismo de negocios
Barcelona es una de las cinco ciudades del mundo con más congresos
El crecimiento de eventos previsto para este año alcanza el 14%
Dani Cordero Barcelona 27 ENE 2014 - 00:02 CET
The business of business tourism
Barcelona is one of five cities in the world with more centers
The growth of events planned for this year reached 14%
Dani Cordero Barcelona 27 ENE 2014 - 00:02 CET
Alien Man . Doctor or new technologies. Between 30 and 50 years. American Dress . And with accreditation around his neck. The number of people with that profile has doubled in the last 20 years in Barcelona. It is the prototype of congressman. The largest tourist business formula : were over three million in 2012, according to Tourism Barcelona. And they are one of the keys to Catalonia in 2013 managed to surpass the 14,000 million euros of revenue and the city has a hotel offer over 32,000 rooms that closed the year with an occupancy rate of 75 %, according to 2012 data .
Congress medical specialties , business conventions , large halls worldwide repercussion as the Mobile World Congress ( MWC) ... Barcelona has spent five years and is among the five cities worldwide with more success. And fight for first place against cities such as Vienna and Paris. "Without the success of the congress no investments now pose as the Hyatt hotel in the Agbar tower would understand ," says Patrick Torrent, Deputy Director of Tourism of the Generalitat . Refers to the announced investment of nearly 200 million euros to install 457 luxurious rooms in Barcelona's iconic building.
The truth is that leisure travel has grown more than congress tourism , but " Meeting the tourist spends much more , plus it's a person who will return to the city ," says Miquel Flamarich , managing partner of BCF and Consultors director of the Master Degree in Tourism Organization i events Universitat Autònoma . A tourist day in meetings hotel 145 euros and 99 euros other day in pocket costs from meals to transportation, shopping or leisure is spent. To this must be added another 512 euros for registration in the congress to participate and 526 euros in the other books.
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Fira de Barcelona is the best example of that tourism. In the biggest events facilities , modernized with the Gran Via de L' Hospitalet held . From a convention of the technology company SAP , which has brought 5,000 people this week at MWC , which was in 2013 with 73,000 visitors, many of them foreigners.
But besides Fira , Barcelona has other facilities . The International Convention Centre of Barcelona ( CCIB) , at the Forum , hosts events between 300 and 14,000. The Palacio de Congresos de Cataluña ( at the other end of the Diagonal , next to the hotel Juan Carlos I) can host events for up to 3,000 people and 70 % of attendees are foreigners. " Dan much oxygen to the hotels that are around you ," says Bruno Hallé , Magma Hospitality Consulting.
In addition , there is a great deal of museum facilities that have spaces to host events of this type , in addition to hotels vying for this segment and have taken center stage in recent years . "Sometimes you are able to sacrifice their holiday occupancy rooms to make room and catering ," said a hotel executive who asked anonymity.
There is another factor : the rates are not as high as in other cities
It is no coincidence that the four-star hotel industry has skyrocketed in Barcelona. They can cater for conferences and events fall within the parameters of the codes of ethics of the pharmaceutical companies , which prevent couches most senior doctors when they are invited to meetings. There are even stores that have chosen to let a star to not be left out of an active business from February to December , with the only summer break .
"The number of four-star hotels and still grows there will be more need ," says Christoph Tessmar , director of the Barcelona Convention Bureau , participated by Barcelona Tourism agency . Tessmar notes that " there is a good infrastructure, have good professionals working in events and congresses It pays them to come to Barcelona : it is shown that the number of attendees grows when organized here." It is also "reasonable " level of air links in Barcelona. But there is another factor : the rates are not as high as in other cities. The chairmen of the conference valued at 4.5 out of 5 events organized in Barcelona and 88 % responded yes to the question " Would you be willing to re- organize the congress in Barcelona? " . "So we remain leaders ," says Flamarich .
Marc Rodríguez , director of BCCI , acknowledges that since 2009 a fall event was received " but in 2014 , we expect to grow 15 % by 2015 and we will recover ." "What this year is all confirmed , we work for the years 2018 and 2019 ," the director of expansion of Fira de Barcelona, Pere Camprubí , who said one of the successes of Barcelona : " We went before anyone we find the international fairs abroad . "
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