The Algarve hotel units had a month of January in line with that of 2018. The overall average occupancy rate/room stood at 34,4%, a value slightly lower than last year (36,6%) and sales volume also did not show significant variations, as revealed by the Association of Hotels and Touristic Enterprises of the Algarve (AHETA).
This stability, in homologous terms, was also verified at the level of nationalities of tourists who stayed in hotels in the Algarve. The biggest drop was that of the Dutch market and, even so, it did not exceed 0,5 percentage points. Even less significant was the 0,3 percentage point drop in the English and German markets.
"The domestic market rose 0,7 percentage points, offsetting the declines in the main foreign markets," added AHETA.
As for the accumulated in the last 12 months, «the room occupancy rate registered an average decrease of 1,1%».
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