“We have already had cancellations, and this year there will be more of them,” say the owners of tourist accommodation in Spain. The total ban began to lead to cancellations: tourists began to flee from popular resorts. The reason is not the protests, but a much more complicated problem — in Alicante, which attracts five million tourists every year, a ban on swimming pools is threatened this summer due to the worst drought the region has seen in the last three decades. Alicante is threatening a “total ban” on filling pools if the current situation does not improve.
As explained in local media, there has been virtually no precipitation since October, which has led to low water levels in reservoirs that supply water to some major tourist cities of the country, such as the resort of Benidorm and Elche. The Ministry is on the verge of declaring a water emergency in the area, which will force all affected cities to put in place water conservation strategies. The authorities have developed a drought action plan containing more drastic measures to conserve water supplies. This includes limiting the non-essential use of water, including a ban on filling swimming pools.
Hotel owners on the popular Costa del Sol have expressed concern that holidaymakers will cancel their holidays if the rules are not relaxed before the summer. And the owners of the company, which sells 50 thousand tourist apartments on the coast, assure that if there is no pool, tourists will change their destination this year. It is worth adding that taking into account the fact that mass demonstrations are already going against tourists (read here), and one of the reasons for this is that overturism destroys the environment, the situation will continue to heat up.
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