The forecasters were right: people would jump at their first chance to travel.
After being cooped up for the last 15 months, the first opportunity to get on a
plane and get some sun or just be anywhere but stuck at home has become a
priority for many in the last month. Once the temporary confusion about which
COVID tests were required and the differences between red, amber and green
destinations had been digested, tickets were booked and planes were filled.
It has been great to see the first trickle of visitors come back to Gibraltar and
they have been most welcome. The first to notice were the hotels whose online
booking systems came back to life over a few days one weekend in April. In the
space of a few hours, thousands of room nights were booked for the months
ahead. This was the first tangible sign that Gibraltar’s economy would have a
busy summer after the long COVID-induced winter.
