Alicante-Elche Airport is set to complete a tender process for 16 new shop concessions that will transform the airside commercial environment from Q2 2016. Spanish airports company AENA launched a tender in July, with a bid deadline in October, and awards and the signing of contracts to be finalised soon. The new stores should open […]
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Alicante Airport set for airside retail transformation in Q2 2016
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Alicante’s Christmas attractions
ALICANTE will once again be organising a number of fun Christmas attractions in the city this year, including the ice rink which will be put up in the town hall square and sledging in the Montañeta. The longest bouncy track in Europe, all 65 metres of it will be put up in the Plaza Senaca […]
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Sun, sea, sand and shops – second home owners enjoy retail therapy in Alicante
Spain has enjoyed a record-breaking summer, with some 54.4 million foreign visits in the first nine months of 2015, up 3.8% on the year before, according to the Industry, Energy and Tourism Ministry. But now that the summer season is at an end and the holidaymakers are back at work in their home countries, has […]
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Alicante opens new routes for winter
Alicante-Elche Airport has opened new routes to operate over the winter season. New connections to Hamburg, Newcastle and Berlin are being operated by Ryanair, while Vueling will also open a new national route within Spain flying to Santiago de Compostela. The flights to Hamburg will run three times per week, on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays, […]
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Alicante Elche airport breaks more records
More records have been broken at El Altet airport in Alicante-Elche after passenger numbers rose by 300,000 last month. The increase has been welcomed by airport operators and airlines, with this being the highest number of passengers in September on record. Top of the passenger nationalities continued to be British, with nearly half a million […]
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Ryanair expands flights from Alicante
Ryanair has unveiled its 2016 summer schedule for Alicante, which comes into force next April. The company will offer five new routes to Berlin, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Newcastle and Rome, reaching a total of 48 connections between April and November. These new services will allow a total of 3.5 million passengers per year to travel through […]
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Alicante top for shopping tourism in Spain
ALICANTE has been named the fifth most attractive Spanish city for shopping tourism. The ranking came in a report entitled ‘The new era of travel retail: impacts and challenges of shopping tourism’ presented this week in Madrid. The report said the average consumption of international overnight tourists in Spain is 47 per cent lower than the […]
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Aer Lingus will add new route from Belfast to Alicante in 2016
The new schedule will offer five services per week to Alicante, a port city in Costa Blanca, on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday beginning April 2016. Faro and Malaga services will increase from seven to nine flights per week with flights operating on Tuesday and Thursday, adding 40,000 extra seats. Flights to Palma will […]
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Spanish property market update – the situation on the ground
According to the headlines, the Spanish property market has bounced back. The latest figures from the Association of Property Registrars show a 5.12% increase in Spanish house prices in the year to June 2015. The jump is the fastest rate of increase since the downturn, with a quarter on quarter rise of 2.8%. So should […]
