According to statistics from the Spanish tourism association Exceltur cited by AARP Travel, Catalonia has recorded tourism activity drop by 15 percent since the October referendum and hotel reservations are down by 20 percent through the end of the year.
According to another report by ForwardKeys international flight bookings to Catalonia have fallen 17 percent year over year since the October 1 independence referendum.
“Domestic political unrest almost always damages inbound tourism and that is what we are seeing,” ForwardKeys CEO Olivier Jager noted at the time.
In the week following the violence over the independence referendum, in which a police crackdown on the voting injured 844 people, two port calls in Barcelona from German cruise brand Mein Schiff were rerouted to Valencia. Large airlines, including American Airlines and Air Canada, also issued change waivers in the immediate aftermath of the violence, allowing their customers to rebook without extra fees.
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