UK Thomas Cook:Bankruptcy, hitting Spain tourism: Minister Reyes Maroto
Madrid
October 3, 2019
UK Travel Leader: Thomas Cook
A bankruptcy application was filed on September 23, and most of the airlines under the umbrella were suspended.
Reyes Maroto: Spanish Minister of Industry, Commerce and Tourism
The next day, the Spanish national radio broadcast revealed that “the number of tourists stopped in Spain has risen to 53,000”.
Spain: Thomas Cook’s largest market
Spain is the biggest market for Thomas Cook.
Of the 22 million passengers annually, 7 million are travelers to Spain.
One quarter of annual sales: € 2.5 billion, sales of Spanish tours,
The failure of the company has had a serious impact on the Spanish tourism industry.
Canary: foreign tourists
Spain as a whole (82.77 million in 2018): Occupies 17% (13.96 million) of foreign tourists.
British tourists: 5.12 million.
German tourists: 3.22 million.
Canary: Tourism Association
Twenty-five percent (4.55 million) of foreign tourists who visited Canary State were passengers of Thomas Cook.
The dependence on the company was quite high.
In 2018, the number of tourists from the UK decreased by 320,000 (down 5.8%) from the previous year.
The tourism industry in Canary has a sense of crisis.
-JETRO
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