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To all those ´clever´ people who thought that here in Spain we were sat around twiddling our thumbs while all you holiday-makers stayed at home in the UK – YOU WERE WRONG! I know you expected the Spanish costas to resemble ghost towns (I wish!), but if my experience of the Costa del Sol was anything to go by this summer, then I think we´ve just had ourselves a little boom!
I´ve spoken to 3 independent experts specialising in renting properties on the Costa del Sol – these guys are honourable, well-established people, so are ideally placed to assess occupancy levels in comparison to recent years.
These Costa del Sol rental experts all assured me that they could have rented out their stock of properties on the Costa del Sol at least 3 times over during the peak 6 weeks in July and August. They were inundated with enquiries….and are only now starting to recover.
I think people overlooked 2 key things when they launched into their forecasts of Spain´s supposedly ´lost´ summer of 2009.
Firstly, people still like to go on holiday, and especially so to Spain. Although arrival numbers from the UK were down by an estimated 10% - 20% on previous years, Brits didn´t turn their back on the place entirely. Despite gloomy conversion rates for sterling against the euro, we actually saw a spike during the tourist season, so that a pound was worth around 10% more here in Spain than it had been the previous month.
Secondly, although a lot of Brits had a ´stay at home´ summer (in the rain for the most part!), the Spaniards did exactly the same thing. I bet you´d overlooked that one, hadn´t you?!
As I reported last month, the Spanish costas were overwhelmed with Spaniards, arriving in their droves at the seaside. And I have to admit, it made a pleasant change. The Britsville destinations of Torremolinos and Benidorm still had a very British feel to them of course, but rental properties in places such as Benalmadena, Torrevieja and Fuengirola, normally home to hordes of British tourists, had a nice Spanish feel to them this year.
So you see, Spanish tourism hasn´t quite collpased just yet………there´s a bit of life in her yet!
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