Puebla, Pue. The hotel sector In the entity, it plans to resume the discounts that it was offering at the end of last year and the beginning of 2022, with the objective of increasing the influx by 30% in the last two months of the year.
The executive director of the Puebla Association of Hotels and MotelsGustavo Ponce de León Tobón, explained that it is not a measure that they wish to apply, but they need to ensure that there is more influx of tourism for the end of 2022.
He explained that they would not be discounts like the ones they had been managing, up to 50%, but 30% maximum, and he would be applying some promotions so that there are more reservations.
He commented that they do it to have enough to endure the first two months of the year, which are economically complicated due to the January slope, which extends until March.
The leader admitted that in 2021, despite having discounts of 30 to 50%, there was little response from the sightseeing and they only reached an average occupancy of 40% during the week and at the weekend they reach 50 percent.
In this context, he said, the conditions were different from the current ones, because they continued to rigorously apply the use of face masks, mainly in closed and communal spaces.
He indicated that by making the sanitary measuresdiscounts or promotions would bring better figures in tourism and, consequently, in economic benefits for the hotel sector.
Ponce de León commented that the more than 200 partners considered that the conditions exist for the sightseeing reactivate more at the end of 2022, so it is worth stimulating it.
“We want important reservations and that gives us guidelines to seek to apply discounts to our rates, because in other parts of the country the businessmen of the sector will be doing the same”, he deepened.
