News: Costa Blanca set to smash tourism records in summer 2017

Summer has just arrived and according to Spanish tourism experts, the high season will be a very successful one as far as domestic and international visitors are concerned.

Tourism agents are expecting this year´s figures to be better than last year´s, when three million domestic holidaymakers overnight stays took place, whilst there were two point six million foreign visitors.

The average occupancy rate in Costa Blanca hotels was of 74 percent, with an average stay of a week. Benidorm led the way with an occupancy rate of nearly 87 percent. This represented a 1.3% increase in comparison to the same period of 2015.

Last year, 75,3 million tourists visited Spain and figures are expected to exceed 76 million in 2017. Some of the markets which are growing fast include Belgium, Iceland, France and Russia, while the British and Scandinavian markets keep going strong.

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