Forty-two new weekly flight to a host of destinations are now taking off from Robin Hood airport. Eight new routes to Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Jersey, Newquay, Malaga, Alicante and Faro are scheduled as part of a Flybe deal with the Doncaster Sheffield Airport. The airline will also operate a business route to Dusseldorf from Thursday […]
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New flights to Malaga, Alicante and Faro
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Alicante shines as the favourite 2016 Spanish destination with new flights adding to accessibility
The beginning of 2016 saw Spain break yet another tourism record, welcoming 3.5 million international tourists in January alone, albeit traditionally one of the low-season months. The latest tourism figures show that this is an 11.2% increase in comparison to last year, with 20% of all overseas visitors coming from the UK. And this trend […]
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Spanish property market is recovering in terms of sales and even prices.
According to data from the Spanish Ministry of Public Works, foreigners bought 69,196 homes in Spain during 2015, up 13% over the previous year, and accounted for almost one in every five of the homes sold in the country last year. Non-resident foreigners purchased a total of 4,846 homes in Spain last year, up 10.1% […]
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Calling the culturati: Palma is hoping you’ll drop by
From 1952, when the first tour arrived in Majorca from England, the island has set the template for modern package tourism: The one- or two-week stay at an all-inclusive resort holiday. As English academic R.J. Buswell wrote in his 2011 book, Majorca and Tourism, Majorca became a much-studied laboratory for postwar mass tourism, the “Balearic […]
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Norwegian launches new flights to Spain
From 30 April, two weekly flights will take off from Manchester to Barcelona, offering nearly 20,000 seats for the summer season. From 2 June, four weekly flights will depart from Manchester to Malaga, while two weekly flights to Alicante will commence from 3 June. Meanwhile, from 15 June, new flights from Edinburgh to Barcelona will be available, adding 15,000 seats this summer. […]
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Mallorca emerges as this year’s summer hotspot as British buyers return to Spain in their masses
Having always been a favourite second home destination, early 2016 figures from leading Spanish homebuilder, , confirm that British buyers are firmly back in Spain and account for a quarter of the company’s 2016’s January and February sales. Overall, the total YTD sales as of February 2016 have risen dramatically in comparison to last year, […]
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Tourism in Spain recorded 11.2% growth in January.
Spain started the year by breaking another tourism record. In January, traditionally one of the low-season months in Spain (except for the Canary Islands), there were 3.5 million international tourist arrivals, 11.2% more than in the same month in 2015. Tourism in Spain increased mainly thanks to the British who traveled to Spain 16% more […]
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KLM expands routes to Spain, adds direct flights to Alicante
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines will start direct scheduled service to Alicante this summer. Alicante is KLM’s sixth Spanish destination after Barcelona, Madrid and Bilbao, with direct flights from Amsterdam to Valencia and Ibiza already planned. KLM will offer sixteen flights to Spain each day. All KLM flights to Spain offer customers from other points of origin […]
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Sun shines on Spain as Taylor Wimpey España reports double operating profit for 2015
Leading Spanish homebuilder, Taylor Wimpey España has released end of year results for 2015 that highlight the significant progress being made in the Spanish property market. The most recent figures show Taylor Wimpey España delivered an improved operating profit of £10.0 million for 2015, an impressive 138.1% growth on 2014’s £4.2 million, and an operating profit margin of 17.2%. […]
