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Revealed: These are all the national holidays in Spain next year as the 2024 calendar is released

SPANISH officials have finalised the dates of next year’s national holidays. Together with regional holidays, people working in Spain will get an average of 16...

Petrol prices at their highest this year after August’s latest hikes 

PETROL prices are at their highest in 2023 after the latest increases this early August.  The new hikes come as millions of Spaniards and tourists...

Tourist spending soars to new records in Spain’s Balearic Islands

TOURIST spending in the Balearic Islands soared to €4.5 billion over the first five months of 2023- €500 million more than in the same...

Hotel stays expected to beat 2022 levels in July and August in Spain’s Costa Blanca and Valencia areas

THE HOSBEC hoteliers association has predicted that summer season hotel stays across the Valencian Community will be higher than last year. The Benidorm-based group says...

HI DE HI! The rise of Spain’s resort campsites – ‘hotel-like’ facilities without the lows of mounting your own tent

THESE DAYS, camping isn’t about just ‘a tent’, where the trip can be spoiled by rain, wind, or too many baked beans by torchlight....

VIDEO: Young British tourist rescued from underground rubbish bin

A VIDEO of the young British tourist who was rescued by firefighters after plummeting into an underground rubbish bin on the Costa del Sol...

Two beaches in Spain’s Malaga among top 20 most instagrammed in Europe

SUMMER is fast approaching which means its that time of the year to plan your next beach holiday. With Google searches in Germany for the...

May 1 and 2: Spain’s public holidays explained

IF YOU didn’t know already, this weekend will last three days, thanks to International Workers’ Day falling on May 1.  That means a bank holiday,...

Spain’s foreign tourist revival continues with bigger spending than in 2019

SPAIN welcomed 4.3 million foreign tourists in February, 35.9% more than in the same month last year. Data from the National Institute of Statistics (INE)...

Spain had more foreign tourists in January than three years earlier- just before Covid pandemic

SPAIN welcomed 4.1 million foreign tourists in January to slightly beat the total three years earlier- weeks before the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. The...

Bioparc in Spain’s Fuengirola opens registration period for its White Week children’s camp

THE last week of February is synonymous in the province of Malaga with school holidays to celebrate the Day of Andalucia (Dia de Andalucia),...

Benidorm hotels on Spain’s Costa Blanca welcomed over two million people in 2022

BENIDORM got over two million hotel bookings last year according to the city-based Hosbec hoteliers association. The Hosbec Monitor report for 2022 says bookings were...

Grand Hyatt will open its first hotel in Spain this spring in Mar Menor area

The Grand Hyatt group will open its first hotel in Spain following a franchise agreement with the La Manga Club and Resort in the...

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...

Love island villa in Spain now available to rent

FANS of the ITV series Love Island can rent the villa Sa Vinyasssa located in Sant Llorenc in Mallorca from September 24. The villa boasts...

Foreign tourists flooding back to Spain with spending close to pre-pandemic levels

SPAIN welcomed 6.1 million international tourists in April who spent €6.9 billion on their holidays. Figures published on Wednesday by the National Statistics Institute show...

Travel against Putin: Germany encourages pensioners to holiday in Spain to save on household fuel bills

A GERMAN travel association has come up with a wheeze to reduce its country’s reliance on Russian gas - give pensioners cash for an...

Tourist app for Spain’s Alicante area reaches landmark of over 100,000 downloads

A multi-lingual Alicante City tourist app has notched up over 100,000 downloads since being launched in May last year. The Passporter app allows easy access...

Planned tourist tax ‘driving away’ British tourists from Spain’s Costa Blanca, despite Alicante and Benidorm councils refusing to charge...

A Valencian tourist tax proposal has been slammed by an Alicante Province small business federation, despite no plans for any local council to implement...

Record Easter for tourist bookings claimed by Spain’s Murcia region

MURCIA is claiming a record high for Easter tourist accommodation bookings, following two years of Covid-19 pandemic restrictions. Regional President, Fernando Lopez Miras, said: “Preliminary...

Easter: When will supermarkets be open during Spain’s long weekend?

EASTER in Spain involves several days of public holidays and that means reduced hours and closures in supermarkets and shops. While you may find some...

Tourists warned over car rental shortage over Easter holidays in Spain

RENTAL companies may not have enough cars to meet demand during Semana Santa, industry chiefs have warned. Feneval, the association of car rental companies in...

The Best Cities in Spain for Easter Getaways According to Brits, French, Dutch, Germans and Italians

BARCELONA, Malaga, Alicante and Palma are the most popular Easter destinations in Spain, according to new research, but not all nationalities favour the same...

Spain puts on extra trains during Easter week to cope with surge in bookings 

SPAIN’S state rail operator Renfe has announced it will put on extra trains to cope with the surge in bookings over Easter week. Between Friday,...

Spain looks forward to busy Easter holiday season boosted by big return of foreign tourists

SPAIN is expecting a healthy tourist Easter with foreign visitors projected to return to 80% of 2019 levels- the year before the Covid-19 pandemic...

UK tourists aim for foreign holiday breaks in Spain as Greece and Turkey suffer due to Ukraine war

UK holidaymakers are opting for Spanish flight and hotel bookings, as interest in breaks to Greece and Turkey falls following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Mabrian's...

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