The Gozo Tourism Association has issued the results of a survey conducted among its members to cover the firstquarter of the year and the Easter period.
The survey covered hotels, self catering accommodation establishments, restaurants, diving, transport services, tourist attractions as well as DMC and tour agencies. The questions included in this survey were related to the Gozitan tourist establishments’ performance during the first quarter of 2011. The survey, also covered the performance of the tourist establishments, during the Easter period, which normally marks the opening of the tourist season for Gozo.
47.7% of respondents termed the performance of their establishment during the first quarter of the year as ‘bad’, while 36.4% qualified their business performance as ‘fair’. Few establishments, representing 4.5% of those who replied, declared that the first quarter’s performance was ‘very good’, while the remaining 11.4% stated that their business was ‘good’.
When asked how the business performed during the first quarter of 2011 when compared to the first quarter of 2010, 52.3% of the respondents classified their business performance as less than last year’s, while 31.8% declared that the establishments’ performance was on the same footing of 2010. 15.9% termed that the going for January to March 2011 quarter, was better than January to March 2010 quarter.
With regard to Easter, which this year was in April, this year’s performance was rated as bad by 27.9% while more than a third, 34.9%,declared their establishments’ performance as fair. The Easter performance was classified as good by 30.2 %, while 7.% of respondents stated that it was very good.
The Gozitan tourism establishments were also asked to rate their Easter 2011 business performance, compared to Easter 2010. Almost 36.4% stated that they performed on an equal footing, while 18.2% rated their Easter performance as better than that for 2010. On the other hand 45.5% termed their establishment’s performance as less than Easter 2010.