{"id":7961,"date":"2016-08-03T11:16:58","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T10:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fontrealestate.com\/the-luxury-sector-is-thriving-in-barcelona\/"},"modified":"2020-11-11T08:50:44","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T07:50:44","slug":"the-luxury-sector-is-thriving-in-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fontrealestate.com\/en\/the-luxury-sector-is-thriving-in-barcelona\/","title":{"rendered":"The luxury sector thrives in Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barcelona<\/span> is an important European city for its cultural and archaeological heritage. The works of<\/span> Antonio<\/span> Gaudi, for example, the flagship artist of Catalan modernism are World Heritage<\/span> as well as the Palau de la M\u00fasica Catalana and the Hospital de Sant Pau. In addition, Barcelona and its surroundings- its natural heritage- are also protected by the Plan for Spaces of Natural Interest- as it’s the case for the Baix Empord\u00e0.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, the Catalan capital has also a very prosperous luxury sector: some avenues such as the Paseo de Gracia, are features of this luxury which is reflected in four\/five stars hotels and exclusive renowned shops. And this economic sector is booming.<\/p>\n

Barcelona, the Spanish city with most important luxury consumption:<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n

Barcelona remains the ‘favorite’ city for luxury consumers, according to the president of the Spanish Association of Luxury, Cristina Martin.
\n<\/span>Among the Spanish cities where luxury consumption is important, Barcelona leads the way as the ‘favorite’ city for consumers looking for luxury goods, with 32% percent of sales, about 1,920 million, followed by Marbella <\/span>, which accounts for 27% percent of the business. <\/span>Madrid (16%), Ibiza (8.5%), Mallorca (6%), Bilbao (2.8%) and San Sebastian (1.5%) are the following preferred areas to buy luxury products.
\n<\/span>If we focus on the European countries in general, Spain ranks fifth in the luxury market within the European Union, behind France, Italy, Germany and Switzerland.
\n<\/span>The luxury sector is the only economic sector that is maintained and even enhanced by exports and tourism.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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But what kind of luxury products do consumers buy in Spain?<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n
‘Gourmet’ products and beauty represent the greatest sales volume in Spain, with 55% of total business, and its turnover has increased by 4.8% over the previous year, as highlighted the president of the <\/span>Spanish Luxury Association, Christina Martin.
\n<\/span>Also, fashion and accessories, such as jewelry and leather goods, are two sectors that are increasingly gaining weight in the ‘made in Spain’ luxury sector.
\n<\/span>Specifically, items that increased sales volume are concentrated in Spain on beauty products, but also on gourmet ones followed by tourism products and quality services. <\/span>That is a trend also seen in Barcelona: tourism and services, are the more lusted-after category of sector in luxury.
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\n<\/span>However, the ‘gourmet’ sector, is also representative of the prosperity of luxury in Barcelona. <\/span>The biggest production centers in Spain for luxury gastronomy are Catalonia with 26% of production, Andalusia with 18%, 13% Madrid, Extremadura 12%, 9% La Rioja, Navarra 5%. <\/span>The remaining 17% is divided between the rest of the regions.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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What kind of customers can afford luxury products in Barcelona?<\/span><\/h2>\n
Barcelona<\/span> is the favorite Spanish city for shopping concentrating 44% of total revenues.
\nAnd Chinese tourists<\/span> remain the biggest spenders in Spanish shops. In fact although spending remained stable<\/span>, almost four out of ten admitted euros for purchases of non-EU tourists were made<\/span> by Chinese tourists, followed at great distance from Russians and Argentineans.<\/span>
\nUS tourism spending<\/span> on purchases in Spain increased by 42% bcause of the weakness of the euro against the dollar.<\/span>
\nThe report shows that while<\/span> Americans have still a residual representation in shopping tourism in Spain, with only 3%<\/span> of revenues from non-EU visitors, they are a great attraction for Spanish trade.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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An upward trend:<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n
The Barcelona luxury sector has a promising future. <\/span>Barcelona faces a summer of record in tourism for example. <\/span>Forecasts suggest it and figures bear out this tendency. <\/span>Up to May, the airport of El Prat received 13% more passengers than in the same period last year. <\/span>And hotels in the city received 6.3% more guests.
\n<\/span>Tourist apartments also expect a somewhat better this summer compared to the last one. <\/span>According to forecasts, during this summer tourist apartments will have an average occupancy of 80%. <\/span>In the case of the Port of Barcelona, the world’s fourth cruise, a spokesman explained that this season the historical record of 2011, with 2.64 million cruise passengers will go over. <\/span>They will a hundred thousand more cruise passengers than last year. <\/span>Since 2005, growth has been spectacular. <\/span>The Port is about to peak during the summer season. <\/span>The luxury sector continues to thrive in Barcelona, a trend that will not end so soon and that is upward.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Thus, there are more and more countries choosing Barcelona not only as a tourist destination, but as a city with good future for investments in luxury real estate.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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