Spain receives 9million international tourists in first three months of the year

May 12, 2011 – 10:10 am

Spain received 9 million international tourists in the first three months of the year, according to figures drawn up by the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade and published by the Frontur opinion poll.

This represents an increase of 2.9% over the same period last year. This increase is nearly ten times higher than the 0.3% registered in the first quarter of 2010. Particularly noticeable, were the increases in tourists from the Netherlands (22.3%), Belgium (20%), Switzerland (14.8%), Scandinavia (11.7%) and Italy (10.9%).

However, the UK remained Spain’s number one market, with 1.8 million tourists (albeit a decrease of 4.8% from 2010), followed by Germany with 1.47 million (3.7% less), and France with 1.2 million (2.7% more than last year).

In March, international tourist arrivals rose 0.6% to 3.5 million passengers, the Ministry said, recalling that last year’s Easter Week (Semana Santa) began in this month.

An increase in tourism usually spells greater interest in property purchase for second and holiday homes. Areas such as Tenerife are seeing a return of interest in the market as a result of such tourism

Source: Kyero

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Launch of new ferry service from the UK to Spain

March 29, 2011 – 12:53 pm

New ferry proviodes more choice to Spain from the UK

This Sunday sees the launch of cross-Channel ferry company Brittany Ferries’ second service from the UK to Spain. The company will offer twice-weekly services from Portsmouth to the scenic city of Bilbao on the Franco-Spanish border.

Brittany’s continuing expansion into Spain reflects the continuing demand from British tourists for holidays in the popular Mediterranean nation, which despite the economic downturn shows no signs of ceasing. The company found that particularly due to the constant disruptions in European air travel last year, more people are turning to the ferry as their method of choice to get to their Spanish holiday home.

“As the number of air travellers from the UK to Spain have declined, we’ve witnessed a surge in demand for direct UK Spain crossings”, said passenger commercial director Mike Bevens. “Bilbao has forged a reputation as a destination in its own right in recent years.”

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Cheap travel deals encourage property purchases in Tenerife and Spain.

February 8, 2011 – 9:46 am

Cheap travel deals to Spain and Tenerife encourages property purchases

British investors are being encouraged to buy property in Spain by the current cheap travel deals on offer, it has been suggested.

Sue Ockwell, spokesperson for the Association of Independent Tour Operators, noted that a growing number of Britsh people are choosing to travel and acquire property within the eurozone because of cheap prices and familiarity with the destinations.

“I think an awful lot of people are realising how lovely places closer to home are – France, Italy and Spain, for example,” she said. “There is so much to see and do in those places.”

The comments come after the recent Post Office Travel Services Holiday Money Report found that Spain is currently the cheapest eurozone destination and fourth placed worldwide, showing a price fall of 30 per cent for the same travel areas surveyed a year ago. This is part of a general trend, in which every eurozone country surveyed is cheaper than last year.

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Cheaper travel may help the Tenerife economy.

November 13, 2009 – 5:07 pm

Families can expect to save several hundred pounds a year because airlines  are being forced to discount prices.

Cheaper travel may help Tenerife's economy

Cheaper travel may help Tenerife's economy

Holidaymakers can look forward to a decade of cheap travel because of the global recession, according to industry experts so for those who rent out property in Tenerife this is great news.

One company estimated that the average British family spent nearly £2,092 on a holiday this year than a fall of £257 compared to 2007.

According to a Euromonitor the fall in spending has been due to families economising, staying in less comfortable surroundings and hunting for cheaper flights. In turn, this has led to companies discounting heavily as they try to cope with the dramatic drop in travel.

As a result, Euromonitor says, prices were 20-30 per cent lower this year than last and the trend is set to continue for a decade, said Caroline Bremner, the head of the research team. “People have been trading down,” she said. “The industry is caught in a vicious circle of discounting. “It will be hard to bring prices back up, even when there is a recovery, because people have got use to discounted prices.” The impact of the recession was outlined at the start of the World Travel Market in London’s docklands.

Ms Bremner also believes that Britain is set to follow America where the travel industry is now catering to the “funemployed” – people who, having lost their jobs, are spending their redundancy pay on the holiday of a lifetime.

Companies are offering discounts to the new army of jobless, using slogans like “laid off, take off” to win the business.

Package holidays had been on the wane with the increasing use of the internet and holidaymakers booking do-it-yourself holidays, hunting for the cheapest flights and accommodation. So if you have a property to rent or let for holiday or longer term, providing your price point is correct you should reap the rewards of this new era.

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