Business tourism

Their average expenditure stood at €1,539 in 2022, compared to €753 for domestic tourists.

In total, this visitor’s spending accounts for 40 per cent of the total.

ture was allocated, with 38 per cent and 30 per cent respectively.

The rest was spent on registration (18 per cent), and consumption by accompanying

ACCORDING to hotel reservation site Booking.com, accommodation in Spain will be 22 per cent more expensive on average this year than Holy Week 2022.

This means about €30 more per room, per night. According to Booking.com, in 2023 the average price per night in April’s Holy Week will be €155, compared to the €127 it cost last year.

Director of Hosbec Valencia, Alberto Galloso, explains that as particularly electricity and food prices have increased, that “hoteliers have to persons (4 per cent).

It is also worth noting the high level of spending by international trade visitors, who accounted for 29 per cent of the total number of participants.

Easter increase

transfer these costs little by little.”

Sixty per cent of the visitors in Spanish hotels this April will be foreigners. Spain will be most popular with the British this Easter, followed by the French, Germans, Italians and the Dutch.

Booking.com said that the most popular Spanish cities with both domestic and foreign visitors will be Madrid, Sevilla, Granada and Barcelona.

Village life

THERE are 36 traditional Spanish villages in inland Malaga Province looking for people to move there.

Malaga, in Andalucia, is promoting its towns and villages to attract foreign buyers and staunch the exodus of Spaniards looking for work, the ‘empty Spain’ phenomenon.

The website ‘vente a vivi ra un pueblo’ (come and live in a village) showcases the beautiful tranquillity of rural life on the Iberian peninsula.

There are 12 areas where towns exist that are being promoted, from Andalucia, Aragon, Canary Islands, Castilla la Mancha, Castile and Leon, Madrid, Valencia, Extremadura, Galicia, The Roja, Murcia and Asturias.

On the platform you can explore work options, health care support, business plans, with the website featuring a town of the week, this week is Villarrodrigo (Jaén).

The website offers information on the number of inhabitants, educational centres, medical centres, internet access, public transport details and grants for entrepreneurs as well as work availability.

SPAIN made strides in renewable energy use during 2022, cementing its position as a leader in Europe. According to the report on the electric system released by Red Eléctrica on Thursday, March 23, Spain has become one of the best­performing countries in the continent’s energy transition, only surpassed by Germany.

Spain also ranks third in the current total capacity of solar power, with Germany and the Netherlands occupying