Best Balearic hotel occupancy since before the crisis

In April, hotels in the Balearics registered the best occupancy figures for an April since 1999.
Figures published by the National Statistics Office show that the occupancy level hit the 65% mark in April, an increase of 6% compared with April last year and one of the highest occupancy percentages in the whole of Spain.
The 65% level is over ten percentage points greater than in April 2010: the 53% then was one of the lowest April occupancy levels ever. Overall, performance in April has contributed to the low season in the Balearics being the best for the past six years.
The same survey also reveals that hotel prices in the Balearics rose in April by 6.3%, leading to an improvement in hotel profit of more than 8%. Furthermore, the number employed in hotels in April was 17,611, which is the highest figure since 2009, and this employment was assisted by there having been 541 hotels open in the Balearics.
As far as visitors to the islands were concerned, the Balearic Statistics Institute calculates that 881,791 tourists came to the Balearics last month.
 These represented an increase of almost 6%, while from January to April a total of 1,739,180 tourists arrived on the islands.
This is 13% up on the same four-month period in 2014, with over two-thirds of these tourists (1,205,083) having come from abroad (as opposed to Spain): German tourists led the way followed by the British.
In Spain as a whole, the number of tourists for the four months was up by 4.4%: a new record.
The domestic Spanish tourism market is also showing continued strong signs of recovery.
In the first quarter of the year it rose by 22% in the Balearics.
The Spanish market is, behind the German and British markets, the third most important source of tourists who come to the islands, and its rebound follows some very poor years when economic crisis reduced its contribution significantly.