By Cathy Elelman • Published: 12 Feb 2020 • 17:02
DESTINATIONS: Mojacar is one of Almeria’s most popular areas with tourists. CREDIT: Shutterstock
THERE was a healthy increase in the number of tourists visiting Almeria last year. A total of 2,602,549 people holidayed in the province last year, up from 2,156,356 in 2018, according to the Andalucia Institute of Statistics Cartography regional tourism survey. The survey also revealed each tourist spent an average of €62.77 a day, 1.7 per cent more than a year earlier. Visitors gave the province an average ranking of 8.01 out of 10. Service and friendly people were particularly highly rated. There is room for improvement on public transport though, visitors said.
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Cathy Elelman is the local writer for the Costa de Almeria edition of the Euro Weekly News.
Based in Mojacar for the last 21 years, Cathy is very much part of the local community and is always well and truly up on all the latest news and events going on in this region of Spain.
Her top goals are to do the best job she can informing the local English-speaking community, visitors to the area and the wider world about about the news in Almeria, to learn something new every day, and to embrace very new challenge this fast-changing world brings her way.
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