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Malaga's inland tourism businesses suffer a 648-million-euro drop in revenue
Pilar Martínez
Inland tourism in Malaga province has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic with the loss of 648 million euros in revenue in 2020 - a drop of around 69 per cent on the previous year - according to the provincial government. The Diputacíon's ... president, Francisco Salado, acknowledged that 2020 had been a "bad year" for rural tourism, although he said that despite the Covid-19 crisis, the supply of accommodation had grown by five per cent and the drop in its indicators had been lower than the ... average of the Costa del Sol. He pointed out that last year 426,000 tourists visited inland towns, 63.5 per cent fewer than in 2019, when 1.1 million travellers were recorded. Salado estimated 66,520 travellers stayed in houses and rural properties, 51.1