The claims come from the General Secretary of the Benidorm and Costa Blanca hotel association, Hosbec. Nuria Montes put the figure of 150m euros in loses for the Benidorm area alone.
Nuria Montes spoke out after talks with regional tourism leaders and Valencian President Ximo Puig. She said that the UK quarantine measures would see many hotel rooms left empty.
Nuria Montes, said: “I estimate that between 200,000 and 300,000 overnight stays will be lost to our members as a result of the quarantine.”
Other figures given by Hosbec included a projection that 500,000 seats will not be taken on flights to Alicante-Elche Airport, with half of those cuts down to tour operators like TUI scrapping their holiday packages.
She said: “We will see a large cascade of flight and accommodation cancellations if the UK does not back down on the quarantine.
She explained that around 15 percent of the region’s hotels that were planning to re-open for Agust had changed their minds, while 60 percent had already reopened.