The Hotel Association of Salou-Cambrils-La Pineda presents the balance of the season

Salou, Cambrils, La Pineda. Costa Dorada. The Hotel Association of Salou-Cambrils-La Pineda, which this year marks the twentieth anniversary, held this Wednesday, October 28th, 2009, its annual dinner, an act for which he paid tribute to Monica Massagué, director of the 'Hotel Mònica of Cambrils for his 25 years of experience in the sector, Octavio Bono, manager of the Tourism Council of the Provincial Council of Tarragona and the Association of Travel agencies in the person of Antoni Ros. The Hotel Association of Salou-Cambrils-La Pineda, Costa Daurada in the center is an entity that was born on August 4, 1989 with 30 hotel partners and 16,000 beds and twenty years after hotel establishments has 87 partners and 45,000 beds. These establishments agglutinate 95% of the hotels in the area and 86% of places on the Costa Dorada. The hotels built to the hotel association directly employing about 5,400 workers, which means that one in nine people in the workforce in Salou, Cambrils and Vila-seca working in the hospitality sector. Also indirectly associated hotels employ some 8,000 people. In 2008, the hotels in the Hotel Association Salou-Cambrils-La Pineda housed 1,067,822 domestic tourists and 855,450 foreign tourists. Balance of the season The president of the Hotel Association Salou-Cambrils-La Pineda, Maria Eugenia Arbó has shown its concern about the drop in the number of overnight stays during the 2009 season, which closed with a 15% decrease compared with the year 2008. Overall, in the last three years have seen a fall in employment figures of 11% aggregate. In contrast to these figures, however, the hotels in Salou, Cambrils and La Pineda are pleased by the high rate of repeat visitors to the Costa Daurada central, since the fidelity achieved figures of 66%. Moreover, Ma Eugenia Arbó very forcefully criticized that hoteliers have not been able to finalize the change in the free market in energy since electricity distribution companies have not yet changed the counters because it can not keep up, although this change should be made. Because of this shortcoming, the hotels must pay the energy bill by 20% more expensive and, moreover, are sanctioned by the administration, despite not having any responsibility for the delay in the installation of meters. Finally, and according to the balance of the season that makes the Hotel Association Salou-Cambrils-La Pineda, the procurement of services over the internet rose to 68% mean hiring.

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