He slowly started to revive in Budapest tourism
He slowly started to revive in Budapest tourism
A lot of hotels have been renting out their rooms since the third wave of the epidemic to survive the loss-making period. According to the MNB’s data, although the turnover of domestic hotels improved with the alleviation of the epidemic, the average monthly turnover in 2019 has not yet been reached in July. After the reduction in 2020, the hotels in Budapest tried to increase revenue by raising room prices. ATV Newsletter Report.
Freshly laundered bedding and empty rooms – one of the hotels in Budapest has been renting out rooms for short-term rent since the third wave of the epidemic, more than a year ago. The epidemic situation has decimated the number of foreign visitors. The owner of the hotel is trying to compensate for the loss of foreign tourists with a short-term rental.
“We feel that the volume of tourism has increased and there are always more business travelers, but half of our hotel is still rented out on a long-term basis,” said Charles Szombati, owner of Charles Hotel.
Although the exceptionally high level of tourism in 2019 is not even close to the current traffic at the airport, the rising numbers are a source of confidence for the players in the tourism sector.
According to Katalin Valentínyi, Communications Director of Budapest Airport Zrt., In 2019 it was typical that the number of passengers per month was over 1 million, which means a total of departing and interested passengers. If we compare October with the current October, we can talk about a 40-45% return, he added.
Life also seems to return to Váci Street, popular with foreigners, with many foreign tourists walking here on Sunday afternoons. Data from the MNB’s latest report on the commercial real estate market show that the covid epidemic is hitting the entire region. Prague suffered the largest decline.
The head of the Budapest Association of Hungarian Hotels and Restaurants says there is a huge difference between the first and second half of the year.
“The occupancy rate in Budapest hotels was around 10-20% in the first half of the year, around 80% in the pre-crisis period and around 80-60% in the second half of the year,” he said. Nándor Iváncsics, director of the Mercure City Hotel.
One of the exclusive downtown hotels is preparing special menus and programs for this year’s winter season and Christmas. Hopeful, their resignation is not too much yet. Experts estimate that the 2019 level will be available again in 2023.
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