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ANDREW J. LINN
Frontera around the 1950s. Although there was no wine tourism then, it was possible to visit several bodegas a week for a year without repetition (there were hundreds of bodegas then). All for free! Although the average price in Spain is around ten euros,
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PILAR MARTÍNEZ
Juan Marín, vice-president of the regional government and regional minister for Tourism, has said that the Junta is to invest 650,000 euros over three and a half years in upgrading its Andalucía Lab innovation centre. It is hoped that the ... international tourism and technology hub. We want to create an international community of professionals, experts, companies and specialists so that Andalucía can lead the future and the sector." The first phase will involve promoting the initiative
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Pilar Martínez
The head of the Costa del Sol tourist board, Francisco Salado, said last week that Malaga province had had its best winter season ever. Data published by Turismo Costa del Sol shows that 2.8 million passengers arrived at the airport between Novemb
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Nieves Castro
Tourism bosses in Marbella are preparing for a strong summer season of business from high-spending customers from Arab-speaking countries. Mayor of Marbella, Ángeles Muñoz, has confirmed to SUR that the town hall has been informed, via different
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Mónica Pérez
tourism. In June last year, the head of the Works and Conservation division of the Port Authority issued a favourable report on the basic works project presented by the town hall, which had a budget of just under 700,000 euros to transform the spaces in
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gabriela berner
...enclaves of international tourism. The brand is built on the foundations of luxury, lifestyle, fashion, music, fine dining and art, and all of this is can be found at the Elviria club all summer long with spectacular themed festivals and epic parties. The
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Pilar Martínez
A study released by a Costa del Sol planning body has reported that 20 per cent of jobs in Malaga province, including the Costa del Sol, are in tourism. The percentage is a long way above the national average of 13.7 per cent and the Andalusian ... regional average of 13.5 per cent. The study by Turismo y Planificación Costa del Sol, part of the Diputación provincial authority, says that in 2018 there were 6.2 per cent more jobs in tourism than a year earlier. Just over 70 per cent of people in ... the tourism sector work for companies and the rest are self-employed. Within the tourism sector, hotels, restaurants and bars employ 82,674 workers, according to social security registration data, and 11,680 are employed in leisure, cultural or
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With the slogan, 'Benalmádena Sumérgete con nosotros', (Benalmádena, dive in with us), the Costa resort launched its latest tourism initiative on Wednesday at Fitur. Mayor of Benalmádena, Víctor Navas, said that tourism related to the sea both ... above and below the surface, was key to the resort's new strategy. The council is working with local marine wreck diving company, Nerea Arqueología, to diversify and expand the existing offer to tourists with investment in so-called Blue Tourism ... . Meanwhile neighbouring town, Torremolinos, was presenting its plan to secure a Spanish tourism quality assurance mark for the thirty 'chiringuito' beach bars along its shoreline. Mayor of Torremolinos, José Ortiz, said that the council was working on a
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MARÍA DOLORES TORTOSA
Barack Obama was in Seville on Wednesday where he was the keynote speaker at the World Travel & Tourism Council's global summit. The former US president expressed his satisfaction at finally being able to see the city after having to cancel his ... perhaps responsible for the ex-president's acceptance of the invitation to speak in Seville: she had previously spent several months studying in Seville. His participation at the summit, which was attended by numerous tourism ministers from around the
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PILAR MARTÍNEZ
...president of EMEA Hilton. "With one in every seven euros in Spain generated by travel and tourism, we are excited to expand our portfolio by 50 per cent in the next three to five years."