Cannabis clubs in upmarket Costa Blanca towns are shut down for illegally selling drugs to tourists
Two cannabis clubs that sold drugs to holidaymakers in Alfaz del Pi and Denia have been closed down by authorities.
Tourists are being put off returning to Spain after experiencing extreme heatwaves, survey suggests
FOREIGN tourists are allegedly being put off from returning to Spain on holiday due to summer heatwaves, according to a CaixaBank survey. The study claims
British tourist numbers surge in Spain: Number of UK visitors jumped 20% in February
FOREIGN tourists looking for a winter break significantly boosted Spain’s visitor numbers in February, with five million arrivals this year- 15.9% more than in 2023.
Brits continue to be the most important tourists in Spain, new figures show
UK TOURISTS visiting Spain during the first 10 months of 2023 totalled just under 15.5 million people- an annual rise of 14.3%. The British market
Tomatoes aplenty in exciting La Tomatina fight with extra participants in Spain’s Valencia area
AN estimated 18,000 people turned the streets of Buñol red on Wednesday in the annual ‘La Tomatina’ tomato fight. Numbers were up by 2,000 more
Life-threatening ‘balconing’ foreign tourists fined €36,000 each and thrown out of Magaluf hotels on Spain’s Mallorca
FIVE FOREIGN tourists have been fined €180,000 for the dangerous practice of ‘balconing’ at Magaluf hotels so far this summer. The Calvia Policia Local has
British holidaymakers boost June foreign tourist figures for Spain
GOT A STORY? Email us at tips@theolivepress.es SPAIN welcomed 8.3 million foreign tourists in June- 10.9% more than in the same month last year according
Spain breaks monthly tourist record- yet again- as visitors continue to flood back
THE BIG return of foreign tourists is continuing unabated with May joining the first four months of the year to record all-time high international visitors.
Spain sees big foreign tourist boost during first three months of 2023
SPAIN was visited by 13.7 million foreign tourists in the first three months of the year- 41.2% more than in the same period in 2022.
Tourist spending in Spain’s Balearic Islands in 2022 smashes pre-pandemic levels
VISITORS to the Balearic Islands in the first 11 months of 2022 spent €800 million more than the whole of the pre-pandemic year of 2019.
Spain’s tourism rejoices with hotels filling up to 2019 levels
TOURISM in July returned to almost the same levels seen before the Covid pandemic in 2019. Figures from the National Statistics Institute show overnight hotel
Tourists are pouring back to Spain but still fall short of pre-Covid pandemic numbers
SPAIN welcomed four million foreign tourists in March- a number that’s eight times higher than a year earlier, but still below pre-Covid pandemic levels. Figures
Spain calculates enormous tourism losses during Covid-19 pandemic
SPAIN lost €155 billion in tourist revenue due to the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the National Statistics Institute(INE). Easter tourism seems to be bouncing back
Foreign tourism in Spain rebounds by over 64% in 2021 but visitor numbers show massive shortfall on pre-pandemic levels
THE number of foreign tourists visiting Spain went up by 64.4% last year compared to 2020 levels, but the total was still nearly 60% below
Benidorm and Costa Blanca hotel association in Spain brands 2021 as a ‘tourism disaster’
FIGURES for last year’s overnight hotel stays in Benidorm showed occupancy rates well down on the pre-pandemic year of 2019. The study compiled by the
Foreign tourist numbers in Spain recover by 70% before arrival of Omicron COVID variant
FOREIGN tourist levels in Spain last November recovered to 70% of what they were in the same month 2019 ahead of the coronavirus pandemic. Figures
Tourists robbed by violent young mob in popular Costa Blanca visitor area in Spain
NINE Spaniards have been arrested for robbing people in the Levante Pier area of Alicante. The Policia Nacional said the thieves, aged between 19 and
Spain predicts foreign tourists could return to pre-pandemic totals in 2022
SPAIN’S Tourism Minister, Reyes Maroto, has predicted that foreign visitor numbers could return to pre-pandemic levels next year. Maroto made her forecast on the back
Absent UK visitors contribute to Spain’s foreign tourist figures taking a big February hammering
FOREIGN visitor numbers to Spain collapsed by 93.6% in February compared to a year earlier, according to figures from the National Statistics Institute(INE) published today(April
