The hotels and tourist apartments of Lanzarote have collected 65 million euros in September with an occupancy rate of 77.5%. They are 25 million euros more than what they earned in the same month last year.
Compared to September 2019, hotels and tourist apartments have earned two million more, since in that period 63 million were earned. And they have done so having this September 27,000 fewer tourists than those who arrived in the same month prior to the covid 19 pandemic. If then there were 255,000 tourists, this September there have been 228,000.
The key is in the average daily rate per night that has been set at 96.59 euros. This is a rate substantially below the average for August of this year, which reached 118.17 euros, but it is still considerably higher than what was paid in September 2019 when it was 82.56 euros per night. So much so that it has also compensated for the fact that this September there have been 13% fewer overnight stays than in the same period of 2019.
The good performance of tourism led to the growth of employment in hotels and tourist apartments in September, when the figure of 10,000 workers that had been achieved in July was exceeded again. In September, 134 new jobs were created, reaching a total in the sector on the island of 10,030 people.
