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24 Oct, 2019 @ 07:16
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Andalucia enjoys most successful summer IN HISTORY as tourism figures for Spain revealed

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ANDALUCIA has enjoyed its most successful summer in history in terms of tourism. 

Spain’s southernmost region benefited from more than 26 million overnight stays in hotels between June and September, new figures show.

According to the Ministry of Tourism, the region enjoyed the second-highest growth in terms of overnight stays after Madrid.

“Andalucia has completed the best summer in history after receiving 8.4 million travellers from June to September and adding a total of 26.2 million stays during the same period,” a statement confirmed.

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The number is a 3.5% increase compared to the summer of 2018.

The success is mostly down to the domestic market, which grew by 6.5%, compared to the 0.7% growth in foreign visitors.

The encouraging growth saw around 47,000 jobs created in the hotel industry, a 4.2% increase on last summer.

It comes as the national average saw a 0.6% decline in overnight stays in September, however this was largely attributed to the collapse of British tour operator Thomas Cook.

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Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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