ISSUE NO. 1419
13 - 19 SEPTEMBER 2012
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Summer visitors cut stays by almost half TOURISTS to Velez-Malaga in July and August cut the length of their stays by almost half this year compared to 2011.
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Average stays by main summer visitors were between four and seven nights, whereas last year they averaged seven to ten nights.
Even so, overall, hotels, hostels, apartments, camp-sites and rural housing enjoyed an 80 per cent occupancy over the two months, with four-star hotels and apartments the top choice. Spelling out the statistics, Tourism Councillor Rocio Ruiz commented that room rates generally remained stable despite several establishments having to lower midseason rates to attract visitors due to low occupation. The tourist office received 7,144 visitors, more than doubling last year’s 3,923, following its relocation to Torre del Mar town centre and longer opening hours. These will now be maintained or expanded in future, said Ruiz. The main requests tourists made at the tourist office were for THE DECLINE: Fewer people now smoking in Spain. town maps, and cultural and activity information. Almost 5,000 of the tourist office visitors MORE people in Spain - expats unemployment, plus the ban on were Spaniards mainly and locals - are giving up smoking in public, that have most from Cordoba and Jaen, smoking. And it is the nation’s encouraged people to quit. while Germans, British economic crisis and high • More quit smoking - Page 3 and French headed the foreign tourist ranks.
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FRONT EXTRA
Third of masts are illegal ALMOST one third of the 72 mobile phone masts in Velez are illegal, the Councillor for New Technologies has said.
New hotel plan THE construction of a four-star hotel and 427 new homes has been given the go-ahead by Nerja Council following the approval of a pending planning project.
Cheers to wine FIVE hundred litres of wine and 400 kilos of grapes were distributed at the XII Moclinejo Wine Festival in Moclinejo, attended by 6,000 people.
Hefty saving A €375,000 saving will be made by Velez Town Hall following the town planning and municipal infrastructure offices being moved to the same building, a councillor has revealed.