Axarquia 16 – 22 February 2023 Issue 1963

THE BEST FINANCE NEWS ON PAGES 12 ­ 16 Issue No. 1963 16 - 22 February 2023

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TORRE DEL MAR’S Weekend Beach Festival is set to be the biggest ever edition of the event later this year, and a contest offering performers a chance to take to the stage at the festival has received more than 90 sign­ups from a broad range of groups and individual performers. Voting in the competition has now begun online on the festival’s website, where it will remain open until Monday, February 27. The two groups or individuals who receive the most votes will be invited to perform to a huge crowd of music fans from all over Europe, an incredible opportunity, particu­ larly for up­and­coming performers. Competition winners will also get the chance to record their own LP in a local recording studio. The groups who entered the con­ test have diverse musical styles, ranging from house and techno DJs to indie performers. The eclectic mix matches the festival’s unique

Photo credit: Weekend Beach Festival (via Facebook)

SONG CONTEST

Voting in a contest has begun, two winners will be selected to perform at one of Axarquia’s biggest events in July, Torre del Mar’s Weekend Beach Festival.

and diverse line­up of performers, which this year includes DJ Carl Craig, Latin hitmaker Maluma and fusion hip­hop and rap musician

DELLAFUENTE as headliners. The festival is set to take place from Wednesday, July 5 for four music­filled days and nights.

TOURIST information offices in Velez­Malaga smashed all records kept since they opened in 2022 with a stag­ gering 40,000 visits made to the town’s two tourist infor­ mation offices and more than 90,000 visitor enquiries answered. Velez­Malaga’s councillor for Tourism, Jesús Atencia Pérez announced the stag­ gering statistics on Tuesday, February 8, saying they are evidence that the town’s ‘smart tourism’ policy is bringing visitors to the town. The statistics are an en­ couraging start to 2023 for the town’s Department for Tourism, particularly consid­ ering that all travel restric­ tions were not yet lifted at the start of last year. The

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All records smashed

SMART TOURISM: Authorities in Velez-Malaga recorded their best visitor interaction rate in 2022 with 90,000 tourist enquiries answered.

figures are also an improve­ ment on data collected be­ fore the pandemic, sig­ nalling a start of a tourism boom for the town.

Pérez highlighted the im­ provement in figures since his team came into office, a 40 per cent increase in visi­ tor interaction since 2015.

A tourism camera set up on the beachfront also saw an average of 500 views per day with a total of 167,000 views recorded during 2022.

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Tropical chef contest

Photo credit: Ayuntamiento de Almuñécar (via email)

‘Tropical Chef’ contest organisers pose with this year’s key ingredient, the locally-grown fruit, papaya.

ALMUÑECAR is warming up to host a thrilling cookery contest in March, to find the best ‘Tropical Chef’. This year’s contest will be held at the Playa Victo­ ria Hotel in the town and will focus on the pa­ paya as a central ingre­ dient, aiming to find a chef skilled with tropical flavours. After being postponed for several years due to the pandemic, the com­

petition is back to its vi­ brant self from Tuesday, March 14 for the semi­ final, before the final one week later. Competitors will be tasked with preparing two dishes featuring the distinctive tropical fruit, one savoury and one sweet. Participants will have 15 minutes to pre­ pare and five minutes to assemble their dish for a chance to win a huge cash prize.