Distribución y Revenue Management

📍 Sector turístico enfrenta estacionalidad en empleo, con menor impacto en agencias de viajes. Agentes requieren amplio conocimiento, experiencia de viaje y entendimiento legal. Deficit de licenciados especializados plantea necesidad de formación específica. Innovación en marketing digital, IA y digitalización son claves para el crecimiento profesional. Viajar es una ventaja distintiva del sector. Pymes y micropymes necesitan personal polivalente adaptado al entorno digital. Especialización en productos concretos es cada vez más esencial para agentes de viajes.

🏨 In 2023, Spain entered the world hotel investment podium, becoming the second European market in H1 2024, just after the UK. Global hotel investment fell 17% to €9.8 billion in Q1, with Americas down 42% (€3.3 billion), Asia-Pacific 8% (€1.9 billion), yet EMEA up 19% (€4.5 billion). Spain accounted for 18% of European transactions, while UK led with €3.2 billion. Key Spanish transactions included Banco Santander's acquisition of three Meliá hotels and the Grupo Statuto's purchase of Six Senses Ibiza. Hotel investment in Spain is expected to drop nearly 25% from €4.1 billion in 2023.

🏖️ Civitatis works with over 29,000 travel agencies globally since 2018, offering activities in more than 4,000 destinations. The focus is on Spanish market, their origin. Agencies benefit from a handpicked activity catalog and a B2B platform for real-time bookings in Spanish. A department dedicated to travel agencies ensures price parity across sales channels. New features like "Reserve now, pay later" have been introduced. Agencies saw increased income and customer satisfaction, contributing to Civitatis' growth.

✈ Tarom, the Romanian public airline, sold its seven weekly flight rights at London Heathrow Airport, with the final operation on October 27. The sale price was undisclosed, but a previous sale to Oman Airlines was for $85 million. Tarom's losses are significant, making the sale a small asset in a sea of red figures. Qatar Airways, the buyer, will add an extra daily flight to its eight existing flights between Heathrow and Doha, also considering British Airways' two daily flights; Qatar is IAG's primary shareholder. Qatar Airways will use Boeing 777s, with a capacity of about 350 passengers, for the new nightly operation.

🏖️ Jonix Dose, Cuban YouTuber and influencer, highlights the significant drop in tourists in Havana, Cuba. Despite it not being peak season, popular locations such as Obispo street and Plaza de las Palomas, as well as the cathedral area, are notably empty. Dose points out the visibly low tourist traffic and the desolation of hotels, even outside the most famous ones.

📍 Ethiopian Airlines, recognized as the best airline in Africa, plans to establish a quality airport in Addis Ababa to operate as a hub connecting East Asia with Western Europe and America. The new airport project presented this week is designed for 100 million passengers annually, surpassing Dubai’s current numbers, and will be located in Bishoftu, 17 kilometers southeast of the Ethiopian capital, covering 35 square kilometers. The Ethiopian Ministry of Transport intends to compete with hubs like Dubai and Istanbul by leveraging Africa's less congested airspace.

🏩 Plantillas de agencias de viajes y turoperadores cerca de 70,000 empleados; la especialización en productos turísticos y la integración de inteligencia artificial son crecientemente necesarias; ACAVE desarrolla formación específica en IA; estrategias para captar y retener talento incluyen formación continua, estabilidad laboral y carreras profesionales definidas.

🏖 World2Meet (W2M) led by Gabriel Subías, has 16 premium travel agency locations known as Grand Azulmarino across Spain, with two more upcoming, totaling 18. These are situated in La Coruña, Oviedo, Bilbao, Valladolid, Zaragoza, Barcelona, Madrid (three offices, one in Pozuelo de Alarcón), Palma de Mallorca, Valencia, Alicante, Murcia, Granada, Málaga, and Sevilla. As of May last year, W2M's retail division had 189 points of sale, aiming for 300 within two years.

✈ In July, Spanish airlines increased domestic flight prices by nearly 12% compared to the same month in 2023, a stark contrast to the 2% rise in previous years. Year-to-date, the domestic ticket prices have surged by 24.7%. International flights, however, have seen a reduction of 5%. The average price for national flights in July was approximately €119. July also saw a slight dip of 1.2% in international flight prices from last year, but an 8% increase overall this year.

🏖️ Holidu's ranking, analyzing 2023 tourist arrivals versus local populations in Spain, found Sant Llorenç des Cardassar in Mallorca most crowded with 595,340 annual visitors, 563,055 being foreigners. Sallent de Gállego, Aragón, follows with 51.8 tourists per resident and 75,675 total arrivals, 42,456 domestic. Peñíscola, with its medieval castle and beaches, sees 51.6 tourists per resident, totaling 383,548 yearly visitors. Naut Aran and Salou are also notable, with 49.4 and millions of tourists respectively. Top saturated destinations include Mallorca, Huesca, Castellón, Lérida, Tarragona, Las Palmas, Teruel, and others.