Hotels on the Costa del Sol have lost 16% or 2,205 of their jobs, in the past year

Hotels on the Costa del Sol have lost 16% or 2,205 of their jobs, in the past year. As the tourism industry prepares to meet the first main test of the new season over Easter, some workers from the hotel sector took to the streets last Friday to demonstrate about the loss of jobs in the sector.Unions say there is no justification for the reduction in jobs, while the Regional Councillor for Tourism, Luciano Alonso, has called on ‘speculators’ to leave the industry.It’s been the top end of the hotel market which has suffered over the past year, with the closure of Los Monteros and Las Dunas as well as those under change of ownership or under bankruptcy offer, such as the two Guadalpin Hotels in Marbella, the Byblos, Incosol and Torrequebrada.
Hotel occupancy on the Costa del Sol is forecast to reach 70% over Easter.Meanwhile the Junta de Andalucía insists that the beaches are ready for the arrival of the tourists. Work to clean 51 beaches over 75 kms of coastline in Málaga province alone is now completed. 45,000 cubic metres of flotsam and jetsam was removed, much of it wood carried downstream from the local rivers.