Perusing the online Vigo newspaperfor more information on the coastal route that Peter and Ivar have mentioned in a recent post on the Camino Portugues, I came across this article in today's paper:
http://www.farodevigo.es/portada/2009/0 ... 61100.html
It says that the Xunta de Galicia is undertaking promotions and advertising with the goal of a doubling of the number of peregrinos between 2009 and 2010. That would be a 40% increase from the last Holy Year -- and a total of 250,000! The article also points out that the Camino Frances is already oversaturated and that only two new albergues are planned along the way to handle the increase. I guess we should all hope that their promotional campaigns will fail -- I understand that the Xunta sees this as a potential antidote to the recession, but it seems totally unrealistic to me.
I've been forging ahead with my plan to walk the Vdlp in 2010 but wonder whether it will be crazy on all the routes. What do you guys think?
I know that in other years, I've heard from hospitaleros along the Frances that when there's a big scare about huge crowds, many people stay away, and in fact there are sometimes very low numbers. I guess there's no way to predict human behavior, though.
Laurie
http://www.farodevigo.es/portada/2009/0 ... 61100.html
It says that the Xunta de Galicia is undertaking promotions and advertising with the goal of a doubling of the number of peregrinos between 2009 and 2010. That would be a 40% increase from the last Holy Year -- and a total of 250,000! The article also points out that the Camino Frances is already oversaturated and that only two new albergues are planned along the way to handle the increase. I guess we should all hope that their promotional campaigns will fail -- I understand that the Xunta sees this as a potential antidote to the recession, but it seems totally unrealistic to me.
I've been forging ahead with my plan to walk the Vdlp in 2010 but wonder whether it will be crazy on all the routes. What do you guys think?
I know that in other years, I've heard from hospitaleros along the Frances that when there's a big scare about huge crowds, many people stay away, and in fact there are sometimes very low numbers. I guess there's no way to predict human behavior, though.
Laurie