Archives for September 2011
September 30th, 2011
Foreign tourist expenditure in Spain is at an all-time high in 2011, with average daily spend of 99 euros and an average spend per tourist of 925 euros. Records began to be kept in 2004 and this years figures beat the previous record of 36,213.6 million euros spent by foreign tourists ...
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September 29th, 2011
Pressure from other political parties and major banks has led to the abandonment of the part privatisation of the national lottery. The government has been under pressure not to float the company and Esteban González Pons, the main opposition spokesman, said that his party will not privatise the lottery company. The decision ...
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September 28th, 2011
The Canary Island of El Hierro, the smallest and farthest southeast of the Spanish Atlantic archipelago, is steeling itself for a possible volcanic eruption after a series of tremors was felt during the weekend. The strongest of these, 3.4 on the Richter scale, shook El Hierro on Saturday. The regional government ...
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September 27th, 2011
The number of crimes in Spain dropped by 3.6% during 2010, when compared to the previous year. Nine out of 10 of those convicted were male, with less than 10 percent female. One area which demonstrated an increase in convictions was deception related crimes, such as fraud, money laundering/counterfeiting and crimes ...
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September 26th, 2011
Protesters gathered in towns and cities across Spain yesterday to call for the suspension of home repossessions and for home ownership to be a basic right rather than a business. Among the demonstrators were members of the 15-M movement, the Plataforma de Afectados por las Hipotecas ('platform for mortgage victims' and the ...
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September 23rd, 2011
Further to yesterday's news of record tourists figures in August, results show that 41.5 million overnight stays were recorded in hotels throughout Spain during the same month - a 6.2% increase compared with the same month in 2010. Overnight stays by Spanish residents decreased 1.4%, while foreign stays increased by 12.2%. ...
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September 22nd, 2011
According to the figures contained in the Frontier Tourist Movement Survey (FRONTUR) drafted by the Institute for Tourism Statistics of the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade, the figures for inbound tourists in August exceeded the previous monthly record of 7.63 million tourists in July 2007. 655,000 more inbound tourists visited ...
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September 21st, 2011
Barcelona's El Monumental will host its final bullfight on Sunday before a ban on the sport takes effect across Catalonia. The regional legislature banned the centuries old tradition last year after Catalans signed a petition against it. The bullfighting industry is still convinced it has a chance to overturn the ban in ...
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September 20th, 2011
Anger over government austerity measures spread Tuesday to Spain's education system, as public secondary school teachers in Madrid went on strike to protest staff cuts. The work stoppage in some 300 schools is to last at least two days and perhaps three, and teachers elsewhere in the country also plan strikes ...
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September 16th, 2011
In a recent article in the Telegraph, they point out the potential affects that moving abroad can have on pensions. The UK daily newspaper highlights that a huge number of Britons are retiring to Spain and other countries, without thinking about how it might affect there pensions. The article quotes figures from pension ...
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