70% of the tourist businesses in Ibiza, opened two weeks before the season begins
Near 1,600 companies assigned to the Pimeef trust that the delayed Easter Brings great results with sporting events, the holiday of the 1st of May in Santa Eulaia and in the Medieval Celebration in Ibiza town, from the 12th to 14th of May.
The vice-president of the Pimeef, Alfonso Rojo, afirms that 70 percent of the associates have opened their establishments in the middle of April, which reflects a remarkable advance with respect to the last year, when only the businesses that work in winter and very few others dared to advance the opening to Easter, so far from the high season. "It is very different to open when there are only two weeks left for the beginning of the season than when there is more than a month left, as was the case last year", said Rojo.
Only a 30 percent of the small and medium companies in Ibiza and Formentera have preferred to delay opening until the official beginning of the season, next 1st of May. According to the calculations of the employer's association of Ibiza and Formentera, 1,600 of the associate companies are open at the moment. Alfonso Rojo emphasizes that most of companies that work these days are related to the restoration, the car rental and commerce. With respect to the season, "the perspectives are optimistic because there is a clear increase in the forecasts of passengers and airplanes", indicated Rojo, he also said that "it is necessary to be prudent".
Another one of the incentives that augur a good beginning of the high season is the holiday of 1º of May, that will allows' ' a weekend of three days in Spain. The conventional travel agencies and the Internet directories are taking advantage of this and they offer ` escapadas´ or short trips to Ibiza.
The City council of Eivissa and the Pimeef have also made an agreement of cooperation with the wholesalers of trips Ucave and Sercom, that will sell tourist packages to visit Ibiza from the 12 the 14 of May, the days of the Medieval Celebration.
The increase of the frequencies of the low cost airline companies that operate in Ibiza and Formentera, reflects an incentive for independent tourism.
According to the tourist report,` Perspectives 2006´ of Turespaña, the intensive use of Internet to locate flights and to make hotel and apartment reservations is especially benefitting destinations like Ibiza, that receive mainly tourists of an age group between 25 and 44 years, that have access to Internet and have credit cards to carry out the payment online. The British tourist, so important for the economy of Ibiza and Formentera, shows a preference for this type reservation. Between May and September Condor will operate with Ibiza (from Frankfurt, Düsseldorf and Munich), Flydba (Munich), EasyJet (London and Milan), Flybaboo (Geneva), Germanwigns (Bonn), Hapag Lloyd (Hamburg and Stuttgart), Jet2 (Leeds) and Myair (Milan, Venice and Bologna).
This Article was translated and modified from www.diariodeibiza.es the local leading newspaper with local and international news, daily updated and free (its in all in Spanish).
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The vice-president of the Pimeef, Alfonso Rojo, afirms that 70 percent of the associates have opened their establishments in the middle of April, which reflects a remarkable advance with respect to the last year, when only the businesses that work in winter and very few others dared to advance the opening to Easter, so far from the high season. "It is very different to open when there are only two weeks left for the beginning of the season than when there is more than a month left, as was the case last year", said Rojo.
Only a 30 percent of the small and medium companies in Ibiza and Formentera have preferred to delay opening until the official beginning of the season, next 1st of May. According to the calculations of the employer's association of Ibiza and Formentera, 1,600 of the associate companies are open at the moment. Alfonso Rojo emphasizes that most of companies that work these days are related to the restoration, the car rental and commerce. With respect to the season, "the perspectives are optimistic because there is a clear increase in the forecasts of passengers and airplanes", indicated Rojo, he also said that "it is necessary to be prudent".
Another one of the incentives that augur a good beginning of the high season is the holiday of 1º of May, that will allows' ' a weekend of three days in Spain. The conventional travel agencies and the Internet directories are taking advantage of this and they offer ` escapadas´ or short trips to Ibiza.
The City council of Eivissa and the Pimeef have also made an agreement of cooperation with the wholesalers of trips Ucave and Sercom, that will sell tourist packages to visit Ibiza from the 12 the 14 of May, the days of the Medieval Celebration.
The increase of the frequencies of the low cost airline companies that operate in Ibiza and Formentera, reflects an incentive for independent tourism.
According to the tourist report,` Perspectives 2006´ of Turespaña, the intensive use of Internet to locate flights and to make hotel and apartment reservations is especially benefitting destinations like Ibiza, that receive mainly tourists of an age group between 25 and 44 years, that have access to Internet and have credit cards to carry out the payment online. The British tourist, so important for the economy of Ibiza and Formentera, shows a preference for this type reservation. Between May and September Condor will operate with Ibiza (from Frankfurt, Düsseldorf and Munich), Flydba (Munich), EasyJet (London and Milan), Flybaboo (Geneva), Germanwigns (Bonn), Hapag Lloyd (Hamburg and Stuttgart), Jet2 (Leeds) and Myair (Milan, Venice and Bologna).
This Article was translated and modified from www.diariodeibiza.es the local leading newspaper with local and international news, daily updated and free (its in all in Spanish).
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