AFTER a record number of visitors last year, Costa del Sol tourism figures have started 2015 getting better and better. The latest figures from the National Statistics Institute (INE) show the number of hotel visitors in January, with Malaga Province registering a 10 per cent increase compared to the same month in 2014, with a […]
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Costa del Sol tourism gears up for another record-breaking year
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Russians turning away from Spanish property
THE weakened Russian ruble has led to a decrease in the number of Russian buyers of Spanish property. Falling oil prices, the decline in the currency and international sanctions against Russia over the crisis in the Ukraine have led to Russian buyers – not long ago hailed as the saviours of the Spanish property market […]
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Spain Home Sales Advanced Last Year First Time Since 2010
Spanish home sales increased last year for the first time since 2010, adding to signs that the property market is recovering from the worst recession in the country’s democratic history. Transactions rose 2.2 percent from a year earlier to 319,389 units, according to data compiled by the National Statistics Institute. That’s still far below the […]
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Malaga: street artists spruce up port
When the Spanish city of Malaga wanted to clean up its sleazy port side district, it called in the painters – big international names in the street art movement. In streets formerly roamed by sex workers and drug dealers, the faded 19th-century buildings now bear weird and wonderful murals by street artists from Britain, the United States […]
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Costa del Sol Registers Best Tourism Year in History
Tourism has had an overall economic impact of 10,820€ million on the province, and over the last decade the number of tourists has increased by 20%. The province of Malaga registered the best tourism results ever in 2014: 10,194,000 visitors, 7.3% more than in 2013, when 9.5 million tourists visited the province (representing an increase […]
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Spanish tourism boasts healthy results
THERE were positive results for Spanish tourism as 2014 closed with a 2.9 per cent increase in people taking holidays in the country. In total, 65 million foreigners visited Spain the last year, 7.1 per cent more than in 2013, bringing in €49 billion, a 3.9 per cent increase in revenue compared with the previous […]
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Málaga’s Hotly Anticipated Russian Museum Announces First Shows
Works by Kandinsky, Chagall and Malevich are due to travel from Russia to Spain for the opening of Malaga’s State Russian Museum this March. The first European branch of the St Petersburg institution is due to be housed in a former tobacco factory in the southern Spanish city. The inaugural display, “Russian Art of the […]
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Building a better future – Real estate construction to boost Spanish economy during 2015
The cranes are on the move once again in Spain, as the construction sector finally picks up its tools following a seven year pause. October 2014 saw the sector register a 13.9% increase in activity compared with a year earlier, according to Eurostat, while financial advisors Arcano have pegged real estate and construction as two […]
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Gap launches in Spain with new store at Costa del Sol airport
MÁLAGA-COSTA del Sol airport is set to house the first-ever Gap store in Spain now that the US-based casual clothing chain has decided to branch out into southern Europe. Due to open in Terminal 3 on Tuesday at 10.30hrs, the Gap shop plans to open more and more branches throughout Spain over the coming year […]