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TOURISM UPDATE
Benidorm registered the highest figures for hotel occupancy of any destination in May
Last May, the city of Benidorm had the highest level of hotel occupancy among residents and foreign tourists of any tourist destination in Spain, with 82.7% occupancy, according to the latest Hotel Tourism Survey published by the National Institute of Statistics. Furthermore, Benidorm was the destination with the highest number of overnight stays among Spanish residents, with 427,534 overnight stays.
These results are also true for the rest of the Region of Valencia where the number of hotel places offered also grew by 1.38%. In this respect, hotels in the Region of Valencia received a total of 634,141 travellers and registered over two million overnight stays. This represents a year-on-year growth of 4.98% and 0.51% in the number of travellers and overnight stays, respectively.
There has been an important increase in the number of foreign travellers arriving (10.4%) and in terms of overnight stays (9.6%), in both cases higher than the Spanish average. The highest growth figures were registered for tourists from Germany (30.89%), Holland (13.44%), France (11.5%), Italy (11.01%) and the UK (6.64%).
