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May 15th, 2013
Spanish airports registered 49,419,813 passengers in the first four months of 2013, representing a loss of 8% compared to the same period of 2012. According to data released on Friday by Aena, Madrid’s Barajas airport is one of the hardest hit by the loss of passengers, with a total of 11,967,642 ...
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May 13th, 2013
Vueling lost 19.7 million euros in the first quarter of the year, which is 19.8% more than in the same period of 2012, the airline reported to the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) on Thursday. In the first three months of the year, the airline reduced its operating losses from 26.8 ...
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May 3rd, 2013
The Spanish restaurant 'El Celler de Can Roca', run by brothers Josep, Joan and Jordi Roca, has been named as the best restaurant in the world by the prestigious (but controversial) magazine 'Restaurant', in their list of 'The World's 50 Best Restaurants'. With three Michelin stars, Girona’s gastronomic temple has ...
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May 1st, 2013
Marbella has been voted Spain’s most-valued beach destination in a study by the firm Oak Power Communication (OPC) which surveyed 630 journalists from around the world - mostly from Germany, England, Eastern European countries, Latin America, France and the United States – who specialise in tourism or who write regularly ...
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April 30th, 2013
According to the 2013 Global Holiday Costs Barometer prepared by Post Office Travel Money, which analyses the price of ten essential products for tourists in 20 destinations, the Costa del Sol and the Costa Blanca are positioned as the cheapest Spanish destinations to spend a holiday, due to falling prices ...
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April 23rd, 2013
According to the business study conducted by the Alliance for Excellence in Tourism (Exceltur), Spanish tourist activity declined by 3.2% in the first quarter of 2013, year-on-year, due to the continued contraction in domestic demand, which was only partially compensated by the international market. The weak results for Easter week, ...
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April 18th, 2013
According to a report released on Monday by the EU statistics office, Eurostat, based on data from 2011, Spain remains the top destination for holidays abroad for EU citizens (accounting for 13% of the trips abroad), followed by Italy and France (both 9%). The EU Member States which most prefer and ...
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April 12th, 2013
According to the latest ING International Survey of Financial Habits, only 15% of Spanish people allocate additional amounts to their savings on a regular basis, while 44% would not have the financial capacity to meet their regular expenses for a three month period. The survey, which reveals information concerning the ...
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March 21st, 2013
Spain’s Minister of Industry, Energy and Tourism, Jose Manuel Soria, this week inaugurated a free access wifi network on the Canary island of El Hierro, making it the world’s first 'Smart Island'. This initiative is part of the El Hierro 2012 Special Action Plan launched by the Ministry of Industry, Energy ...
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March 19th, 2013
The Spanish Prime Minister has assured the members of the International Olympic Committee Evaluation Commission (IOC) that Madrid's bid to host the 2020 Olympic Games would be "an enormous success for Madrid, for Spain, and for the the Olympic Movement in general". Mariano Rajoy said on Monday in Madrid, where the ...
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