Bookings are decreasing in accommodation facilities in Sardinia in view of July, especially in the towns of the North-West.
This was reported by the Federalberghi-Confcommercio Nord Sardegna Study Centre, in a new analysis on the numbers that hotels and other associated tourist realities send in the final balance, including the trends in arrivals, attendance, room occupation.
The call from the offices this time was answered by 30 hotel structures out of the approximately 100 members out of the 110 existing in the geographical area that goes from Stintino to Castelsardo-Valledoria, with Alghero, Sassari and the innermost urban centers with respect to the coast.
On a monthly basis, 17,592 arrivals were sampled, distributed in north-west Sardinia for 36.41% of cases from national quadrants and for 63.59% from international origins.
The room occupancy index stopped at 53.31% of the total, against 54.74% totaled in the same month of 2022.
"A physiological decline - explains the president Stefano Visconti - mainly due to the reopening of the international markets antagonistic to our destination, still unreachable in 2022 due to the effect of the Covid tails, which today offer the Italian market a medium and long-range travel alternative" .
For Alghero, the room occupancy index is above average compared to the rest of the Province and equal to 56.73% of the total, albeit down from 57.17% in May 2022.
«The inflationary phenomenon with the consequent tariff increases of all tourist services, the still unstable weather, the market alternatives with the reopening of all the tourist destinations, the difficulty of accessing the Island also due to the air ticket tariffs and fleets had an almost negligible impact on stays in the month of May - says the president - given that the lost ground on the room employment front is around one percent».
However, the return of tourists from the rest of Europe is reassuring, so much so that in Alghero 69.02% of the sampled arrivals are from beyond the Alps (returning to the pre-covid data) given the historical custom of local operators to contact to international markets, but also in the rest of the province this index reaches 44.93% of arrivals.
