Jorge Marichal (Cehat): “Tourism Is Not Responsible for the Housing Crisis in Spain”

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Jorge Marichal (Arona, Tenerife, 1973) has been president since 2019 of the Spanish Confederation of Hotels and Tourist Accommodation, which represents 15,000 establishments. In those six years he has lived in his flesh the biggest crisis in the history of the accommodation, with hundreds of hotels closed by the pandemic, and a dizzy recovery without parallel, that in only two years has put Spain on the verge of reaching 100 million foreign tour…