With Easter fast approaching and the summer holidays hot on its heels, families across Britain will be packing up their suitcases ready for some much-needed spring sunshine. Travel agent Direct Holidays predicts that Spain will be the top choice of holiday destinations for Brits during 2013, just as it was during 2012. Data for the [...]
The beaches, resorts and assorted tourist attractions of Europe are undergoing a quiet revolution; a transformation to match the foreign-holiday boom unleashed by cheap package tours in the 1960s. The Russians are no longer coming. They have arrived. And the Chinese are on their way in even bigger numbers. With its pretty piazzas and ancient [...]
We all love the festive season but Christmas time doesn’t need to mean grim weather and unbearably crowded shopping expeditions. This year why not opt for a bit of sunshine and vitamin D in your Christmas stocking? Indeed, more and more Brits are swapping their snowmen for sandcastles with research conducted by my Travel Cash, a prepaid [...]
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 [...]
Spain’s tourism figures for the first four months of this year are better than even the most optimistic forecasts. The Minister for Tourism, Industry and Commerce, Miguel Sebastián, reported on Tuesday that the number of foreign visitors to Spain was up by 8.5 per cent between January and April this year. He added that the [...]
