Rentals thriving

AIRBNB‐style holiday homes are popping up all over Almeria, especially in Mojacar and Vera making Almeria one of the regions that has the most registered holiday homes and rural ac‐commodation tourist homes. Almost tying with cities like Sevilla, 9,183 holiday rentals have been registered with the Tourism Reg‐istry, 1909 reported being along the coast of Vera and 1,461 in Mojacar.

Other towns seeing a surge in such proper‐ties are Nijar, Pulpi, Carboneras, El Ejido, Cuevas del Almanzora, and Garrucha. The Almeria area is still not dominated by hotels like other coastal towns but attracting many tourists to its beautiful coastline has led to the development of this alternative method. In fact, according to the Registry of the Ministry of Tourism, there

BASKETBALL fans from all over Andalucia, Madrid, and Murcia descended upon Almeria to take part in the 12th Easter Tournament host‐ed by Club Adaba from Sun‐day, April 2 until Wednesday, April 5.

The event was hailed as a major success, bringing more than 1,200 players and 106 teams together for four days are more holiday rental beds (45,657) than ho‐tel beds (35,000) in the province. They have al‐so seen that people that stay in holiday homes spend more during their stay in the area than those staying in a hotel and the duration of their stay is proportionally longer: five days in comparison to 3.6 days in a hotel.

Bouncing into Easter

of competitive fun. The event also gave the local hospitality a boost with three hotels fully booked and a further 500 rooms reserved for competi‐tors and spectators.

The tournament saw a to‐tal of 168 matches played on basketball courts at the CD El Toyo‐Retamar and the Pala‐ cio de los Juegos Mediterrá‐neos. Participants in the com‐petition hailed from various regions of Spain, including An‐dalucia, Madrid, and Murcia.

The event came to a close on the Wednesday with an awards ceremony at the El Toyo‐Retamar Sports Com‐plex.