HSMAI Europe » Tourism http://hsmai-europe.com Minds in motion Wed, 26 May 2010 13:13:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Barceló chief sees dismal summer http://hsmai-europe.com/2009/06/22/barcelo-chief-sees-dismal-summer/ http://hsmai-europe.com/2009/06/22/barcelo-chief-sees-dismal-summer/#comments Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:36:33 +0000 HSMAI Newsdesk http://hsmai-europe.com/?p=157 MADRID — Spain’s tourist outlook for the summer is dismal with sales dropping between five and ten percent as vacationers cut back on spending and the length of hotel stays, predicted Simón Pedro Barceló, president of Barceló Corporación Empresarial hotel and travel group.

“This year is going to be very difficult as we’ve already seen from the 20-percent fall in industry sales during the first four months of the year, which was the low season,” Barceló said at an economic conference in the Spanish capital.

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