This week, Lloret de Mar, through Lloret Turisme, attended Europe’s leading professional tourism fair, the World Travel Market, which took place in London from 7 to 9 November, this year celebrating its 43rd edition.
Lloret Turisme, together with the Costa Brava Girona Pyrenees Tourist Board, was present at the Catalonia stand, where it held a number of meetings with operators, tour operators and specialised media to promote the destination’s value proposition and new features, explore possible partnerships and capture the outlook for 2023. In the words of Elizabeth Keegan, manager of Lloret Turisme: “We have met, for example, with Jet2Holidays to assess new joint synergies, with Ireland’s largest operator, Sunway, which will begin to programme the destination at the end of the year, and with companies representing this market in order to strengthen our brand presence in Ireland thanks to the various air connections with Girona Airport. We have also met with the main OTAs in the British market and the rest of Europe”.
Several companies from Lloret have also travelled to the British capital to take part in the fair, such as Garbí hotels, L’Azure Hotel, HTop hotels, Aqua hotels, Marsol hotels, Guitart hotels and the incoming agencies Traveltec and Evenia Travel Services.
Within the framework of the World Travel Market, the Board of Directors of the Alliance of Sun and Beach Tourist Municipalities also met to announce the total number of tourists that these eight municipalities have received; specifically 3.6 million visitors, which represents 10% of the national and international tourists that Spain has received in 2022.
In the words of Jaume Dulsat, Mayor of Lloret de Mar: “The WTM is a must-attend event for the tourism sector on a global scale where we can already see how marketing is developing in the run-up to 2023”.
Tourism figures for Lloret de Mar (January-September 2022)
According to INE tourist occupancy data, Lloret de Mar received a total of 980,761 tourists and 4,127,435 overnight stays from January to September 2022. The main international markets were France with 222,501 travellers and 894,963 overnight stays (22.69% of the total); the United Kingdom with 66,201 travellers and 338,754 overnight stays (6.75% of the total), with a particularly good performance during the month of September, when we received 21,043 British travellers, representing 87.896 overnight stays, Germany with 51,599 travellers and 293,786 (26% of the total); Belgium with 46,951 travellers and 284,853 overnight stays (4.79% of the total); the Netherlands with 46,831 travellers and 267,296 overnight stays (4.77% of the total) and Italy with 42,540 travellers and 212,266 overnight stays (4.34% of the total).
