Issue No. 1964 23 Feb - 1 Mar 2023
COSTA BLANCA NORTH • EUROWEEKLYNEWS.COM
BIG BUSINESS
VALENTINE’S DAY and the Benidorm Fest gave the sec tor a boost this month, al lowing it to face spring with good prospects. Forecasts for the second fortnight are already above 65 per cent in almost the entire Valen cian region. Spring is just around the corner, and the pleasant, stable, sunny weather we are enjoying is leading to a significant increase in hotel reservations in all destina tions in the Valencian Com munity, both nationally and internationally. More than half of the tourists in the Valencian Community who stay in ho
BENIDORM: Business is already booming with spring just around the corner.
tels come from abroad, up to 60 per cent in the case of the Costa Blanca. Even in Castellón, international tourism is also taking off and already accounts for a 25 per cent market share.
Among the strengths, there is expansion of the markets of origin. Although the British are still impor tant in the Benidorm area (36 per cent), there is an ad ditional 15 per cent dis
tributed among other na tionalities that are gradual ly growing. This expanded portfolio of markets is very significant both in Alicante and on the Costa Blanca and Valencia
FREE • GRATIS
Airport recovery IT is good news for Spain and tourism as AENA network of airports has confirmed that it has exceeded prepandemic data for the first time since Covid, reaching a whopping 16,930,100 passengers in January 2023. It looks as though things are really starting to pick up as AE NA (the airport management group which includes Alicante Elche Miguel Hernandez Airport) closed the first month of the year 2.1 per cent up on the same month of 2019 and 62.7 per cent more than in 2022. AlicanteElche Miguel Hernandez Airport saw 795,148 pas sengers through its doors in January (+1.3 per cent more than the same month of 2019 and +68.1 per cent more than Jan uary 2022). Of the total number of travellers recorded in January, 6,133,222 travelled on domestic flights.