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Pilar Martínez
July may be the traditional start to the tourist high season on the Costa del Sol, but this year there is nothing normal about it. Having been in complete paralysis for more than three months, the sector's survival hangs in the balance. Foreign touri
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After 99 days under the state of alarm, Spain's borders with the European Union (including the UK, but not Portugal) reopened on Sunday, bringing with it the arrival of foreign tourists, vital to the Costa del Sol's economy. On Sunday about thirty
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After three months closed to the public due to the coronavirus health crisis, members of the public once again were able to admire the courtyards and palaces of the Alhambra in Granada on Wednesday. Visitor numbers are limited to half the monument'
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Ivan Gelibter
...spending nearly 20 years in the company of other chimpanzees, she still greets human visitors by acting out a hug and by blowing kisses. Her keepers accept that she does this, but they don't celebrate it because unfortunately it is the result of her ... first in Andalucía, following the lockdown which began in March due to the coronavirus crisis. Even so, not all the animals were as pleased to see visitors again as Julieta. Species such as chimpanzees, orangutans, and other apes and primates at the ... Bioparc, tend to be more interested in what visitors are doing, while others such as Rokan, the male Sumatran tiger, didn't seem nearly as happy about seeing new faces after so many weeks with no humans threatening his territory. We all have to get used
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Pilar Martínez
Wednesday marked the busiest day so far in terms of hotels and other tourist accommodation on the Costa del Sol reopening. Around a dozen welcomed visitors again, but data shows that there are barely 60 currently in operation. In Malaga city, ... the iconic AC Marriott Málaga Palacio and MS Maestranza welcomed visitors again, while on the Costa, the Polynesia hotel of Holiday World (Benalmádena), as well is its beach club, reopened. Malaga Airport reopens T3 as July begins with more
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Debbie Bartlett
Following two incursions this week by kayakers into the Gorham's Cave complex, which is a protected World Heritage Site, the authorities have issued a reminder that it is an offence to land on Governor's Beach and/or access the caves. The penalties r
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...opening of the Spain-Portugal border coincided with the start of air bridges from the EU to 15 countries. From 1 July, visitors can now arrive from Algeria, Australia, Canada, Georgia, Japan, Montenegro, Morocco, New Zealand, Rwanda, Serbia, South Korea,
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visitors. The regional minister for Health and Families, Jesús Aguirre, confirmed following a Cabinet meeting in Seville on Thursday that the proposal had already been submitted to central government and is not dissimilar to the strategy being imposed in ... First quarantined visitors The first people to arrive in Malaga under the new restrictions touched down on Saturday (all flights on previous days were cancelled) on two flights from Oslo and Stockholm. Arriving passengers, around 100 in total, were
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Mark Nayler
...encompassed only two weeks of the total lockdown that dominated over half of Q2, during which period the Bank estimates that the Spanish economy slowed by an incredible 20%. There were zero international visitors to Spain in April: not a single, solitary
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henry flynn
...substitute Juanpi’s free-kick delivery. Rayo kept their visitors under the cosh in the final 20 minutes, but it was one of Malaga's own players that almost got their breakthrough goal as stoppage time approached. Luckily for them, Munir was on his toes to