More hotels set to close for the winter in Spain as the recession bites: "82,000 hotel beds are set to be lost on the Costa del Sol this winder as hotels close for the season.
Union CCOO has complained that seasonal closures are becoming ever more common and lasting for longer. The union describes it as ‘the most important structural problem that tourism has in Spain’.
Gonzalo Fuentes, General Secretary of the Andalucía HostelryFederation, noted that, for example, as many as 13 establishments in the province failed to reopen in time for Easter this year.
Some 15,000 jobs are lost because of these closures which are affecting some establishments for the first time. The Hotel Amargua in Torremolinos, for example, has been open continuously for the past nine years, but will close for the winter this year on November 20. It is one of the 40% of the hotel pool in Andalucía which has taken the decision to close during the low season"
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