Residential Tourism in Costa Blanca

We are flocking to Spain for a holiday we have in greater numbers than before. But forget the weeks of vacation per year for the group. Now we want to get on a cheap flight to our home in Spain - and preferably, two thirds of us on the Costa Blanca and Costa del Sol - and we want to visit at least four times a year with friends and family. These are the results of a new report from Spain, the lighthouse, tourists residential sponsors'': people who have gone from spending the holidays to buy a holiday home there.
While the Spanish property market boom and construction, along with local services to meet the needs of tourists, housing, such as furniture stores and many supermarkets and restaurants and hotels hang the keys to their rooms in a state of despair in which watch 14000000 UK each year go to Spain, but see 4.1 million of them remain in the past year in property to friends or relatives instead of 'hotel.

"Spain is by far the top destination for tourists, residential and Costa Blanca are popular especially because of the climate throughout the year, excellent infrastructure, good and growing number of communities and large scale," says Sean Powell the Director General of the Spanish Lighthouse, which works with a network of moral and real estate agents selling Spanish holiday homes for British buyers and other Northern Europe.

"In Costa Blanca, particularly in the south, you still have the option of a wide range of properties that are available from € 100,000, even people who were the prices on the Costa del Sol can still afford a house Spanish coast popular adds Powell. "Home owners have the additional advantage of holiday homes to rent until the property is a source of enjoyment and investment."

Costa Blanca, stronghold of mass tourism since 1960. Now it has become a center for tourism, housing, airport of Alicante, the number of travelers from the United Kingdom increased by 30% in 2003.

Colin Pinfold from Sutton on Sea, Lincolnshire, is a container typical tourist. Having spent many a holiday package on the Costa Blanca, in the past, he and his wife now wants to retire permanently, just bought City € 140,000 to Torrevieja Spain by the spotlight.

"I was watching the children Costa Blanca, since he left home and when we went there in the recent Under and wonderful, and he took us everywhere for five days, and took us for meals and sorting of a lawyer and open a bank account, "said Pinfold. "We're heading there as soon as we sold our house in England and see our children and grandchildren much more, bring us five hours to drive us in Sutton on Sea, will be faster for them to fly to Alicante."

Jackie Gulliford, who works at the University of Oxford, and her husband, a teacher, and looking at properties with Lighthouse Spain Costa Blanca South with the opportunity to hire well. "We used to own property near Cadiz, with another couple, but after 23 years we sold our share as they will help them and I felt there were enough visitors to the area to make it useful. So now we only buy and Costa Blanca, where prices are reasonable, it must be easy to afford. It would also be a good place to spend the winter when they retire. "

While Benidorm, sandy beaches, long and entertainment throughout the year, is still a thriving resort for foreign tourists and Spaniards, the coastal and inland cities, which were unknown to tourists British media began to appear on the residential and tourist.

Since prices in coastal towns, as the Minister Javea and Calpe are close to those of the Costa del Sol - villa with sea view apartments from € 600,000 and € 350,000 - inland towns and villages in costs and easy access to grow an appeal for foreign buyers.

"Hotels are now non-existent in some places more foreigners to buy property as a basis instead of a vacation," says Thomas Mason, professor of sociology at the University of Alicante tourism. "There is an internal shift among second-home buyers who want to live in small villages and less developed with high quality of life, but that are related to well-to-coast highways," says Mason.

Funding from the government in Valencia to discuss the impact of residential tourism in the province of Alicante, Mazzone recently interviewed homeowners with 1000 strangers who spend at least six months of this province
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