Domestic tourism is already rebounding during these national holidays, boosting business in the hotel sector.
Only on these dates hotels on domestic tourists according to the National Chamber of Tourism of Peru (Canatur), they show employment between 60% and 70%.
Canatur President Carlos Canales indicates that with this recovery in the sector, it is possible that next year we will have the same figures as in 2019 in the case of domestic tourism.
But this indicates that in the case sightseeing receptive recovery is still slow. In hotels for foreign tourists, occupancy ranges from 25% to 30%.
Canales notes that the sector is gradually recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic. Apart from hotels for foreign tourists, other businesses that remain low are travel agencies and tour guides.
“We had 1.5 million. workplaces formally, and we have 500,000 left. Little by little, with this reactivation, we have already reached 800,000 workers,” he said.
He added that July is the high season for host tourism, and for the first time in two years, one million foreign tourists will be reached by July 31 this year. This is considering that up to two weeks of this month, 870,000 foreigners arrived in the country.
By the end of 2022, it is expected to reach 1.5 million or 1.8 million people. tourists foreigners, which exceeds 400 thousand foreign tourists who arrived in 2021.
Source: RPP
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