Paola Rainieri, the president of the National Tourism & Hotels Association (Asonahores), says travel in June was down 2.5% but is recovering. During a visit to Adriano Miguel Tejada, executive editor of Diario Libre newspaper, Rainieri said that the falloff was manageable. The decline is attributed to effects of the US press and social media persistent coverage of the spat of tourist deaths in the eastern region, despite there being nothing out of normal.
Rainieri said that what is important is that the hotel bookings are returning to normalcy. “This is a clear sign we are in a recovery process,” she said. She acknowledged the lower numbers in June will affect the year-end figures.
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Diario Libre
23 July 2019