Many UK travellers take cheap flights to Malaga every year as a great way to get to their southern Spain holidays – but the local tourism agency is urging Brits to make the most of Malaga itself, rather than simply seeing it as a springboard. The convenient location of Malaga Airport and its link with […]
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More to Malaga Than Airport Connections
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BBC Radio 1Xtra Live brings the party to Majorca
On Saturday 16 July, BBC Radio 1Xtra will be getting into the summer party spirit when it broadcasts for the very first time from one of the most popular Mediterranean islands, Majorca. Kicking off with a live simulcast on Radio 1Xtra and BBC Radio 1 from 7-11pm (8pm-12midnight local time), BBC Radio 1Xtra Live heads […]
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Spain Sees Year on Year British Tourist Increase
Online travel experts, ULookUBook.com, who offer all inclusive holidays to Spain, say that their customers are returning to the country year after year. This insider knowledge has been backed up by official figures from 2010 released this month. The data collated by the Instituto Nacional de Estadistica, showed that 83 per cent of people visiting […]
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Mallorca celebrates new UNESCO heritage site
Undoubtedly, the Serra de Tramuntana mountain range is one of the most striking features of this wonderful island. Its awe-inspiring karstic landscape is marked by agricultural terraces, dry stone walls and foot-paths, torrent watercourses and lusciously rich vegetation of holm-oak woods and olive-tree plantations. At the 35th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in Paris, […]
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Dining al fesco
The sunny weather of the Costa del Sol makes dining al freco possible almost all year round. In Spain, long, lazy lunches and dinners that start late (around 10pm) are often preceded by an aperitivo (alcoholic beverage) or two on the seafront; in the quaint huts and summertime restaurants known as chiringuitos. Here, the freshest […]
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Singapore Airlines And Spain Tourism Board Sign MOU
Singapore Airlines and Spain Tourism Board have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) aimed at boosting tourist arrivals to Spain. Under the agreement, both parties will jointly explore and implement activities to promote tourist traffic to Spain, by way of Singapore Airlines’ services between Singapore and Barcelona. Both have agreed to commit funds through to […]
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Valencia gets the green light on international tourism as the Formula One Grand Prix of Europe hits town this weekend
Over the years millions of overseas tourists have selected the Communidad Valencia as their holiday getaway with the vast proportion choosing to spend their time along the coastal strip of the Costa Blanca, while the city of Valencia in the past, was generally absent from the tourist map. However, as Spain’s third largest city, Valencia […]
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Spain received more than 19 million tourists in the first five months of the year, 7.3% up on the same period in 2010
Between the months of January and May, more than 19 million foreign tourists visited Spain, representing a 7.3% increase on the same period last year, according to figures published by the Spanish Inbound Tourism Survey (Spanish acronym FRONTUR), prepared by the Tourism Studies Institute of the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade. In the […]
