Hotels in Costa Daurada promess not to raise prices in 2011

Salou, Cambrils, La Pineda beach. Costa Dorada. Hotels in Salou, Cambrils and La Pineda Beach are part of the Hotel Association Salou-Cambrils-La Pineda facing the tourist season of 2011 with the forecast not to raise prices and, therefore, to keep them at levels similar those of the tourist season of 2010. The Hotel Association Salou-Cambrils-La Pineda has a total of 83 hotel partners, representing 95% of hotel establishments of the central Gold Coast. Together, these hotels totaling 20,043 rooms with a total of 44,000 hotel rooms spread among three municipalities comprising the association: Salou, Cambrils and La Pineda beach.   As said Juan Antonio Padron, Vice President of Hotel Association Salou-Cambrils-La Pineda is still too early to know precisely what the price that the hotels will apply the next tourist season, but he said, the current forecast is that prices are maintained at the same levels they had in 2010. Anyway, Padron said, the pricing policy of containment can be effective in both the final price of the room and through other promotions and offers concrete, such as applying a discount when booking 's makes a determined advance.   This forecast in view of the tourist season of 2011 was made vice president of Hotel Association during the presentation of the balance of 2010. Padron was accompanied by the president of the association, Maria Eugenia Arbó, and by the secretary of the association, Albert Savé. More tourists, but shorter stays Regarding the balance of the tourist season 2010, Maria Eugenia Arbó, president of Hotel Association Salou-Cambrils-La Pineda believes that there is a positive aspect, namely that the number of tourists who visited the Gold Coast Central and have chosen the hotel has increased compared to the 2009 season, although the stays have been shorter. Therefore, more tourists, but also a higher turnover because the stays are shorter and therefore more spending for hotels, which this year have been cut back their profitability. Moreover, regarding the organization of the trip, most tourists do through conventional travel agent, although this system low percentage, whereas the recruitment through the Internet has grown a 13'8% compared to 2009. Regarding other aspects of the stay of tourists in Costa Dorada, Tarragona, Cambrils, Barcelona, Reus and Salou are in this order, the places that tourists have visited or plan to visit, while another of the Data collected by the Hotel Association Salou-Cambrils-La Pineda is that the average expenditure per person during their stay has declined relative to 2009, as it has gone from an average of 240 euros to 195 euros on average in 2010 . XIV Dinner of the Association and annual tribute Coinciding with the completion of the tourist season, the Hotel Association Salou-Cambrils-La Pineda was held at Hotel Grand Palas Pineda of the fourteenth edition of its annual dinner. The event was attended, among others, Joan Molas, president of the Spanish Confederation of Hotels and Tourism Alojamientos (CEPYME). During the event, the Hotel Association Salou-Cambrils-La Pineda Orteu paid tribute to James, for his career of 25 years in management and hotel management, and James Marimon, head up this year PIMEC Tourism. Meanwhile, Maria Eugenia Arbó, president of Hotel Association Salou-Cambrils-La Pineda makes a delivery on behalf of the charity organization Caritas in Salou. The Hotel Association Salou-Cambrils-La Pineda was born in 1989 with 30 hotel partners, a figure that has increased considerably this year because the association has 83 hotels associated with employing a group of 10,500 people.  

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