Originally Posted by Barriej

They are building more than 20 new apartment blocks and hotels in Benidorm right now....maybe you would like to inform them that tourism is something they dont want or need before they waste all that money.

Originally Posted by Barriej

I will add my 2c Didnt want too, but all you seem to do is bash Brits in your posts.

I also live near Benidorm and yes there some who 'guzzle' beer early in the morrning and why not, they are on holiday. Not what you would do (nor me) but its none of my business as long as its controlled.
But Benidorm is also a major tourist destination for thousands of Spanish, German, French and Scandinavians who sometimes dont behave wonderfully.
And Benidorm is considered a major city of culture. (mind you so was Hull)
The city gives the central government over 1,800 million in taxes every year, but it only receives around 18 million back in financing...

Here you go. So tourists are bad according to you.
This from a report by BBVA (some small time company I doubt you have heard off)

BBVA Research has analysed developments in the Valencian tourism sector for a number of years, and seen the important changes that it has undergone. The sector generates around EUR 16 billion per year (15% of regional GDP) and is responsible for 290,000 jobs (15% of total employment).
Here is the rest of it.
https://www.bbvaresearch.com/en/publ...yond-benidorm/

I do however also have to point out that the Spanish are not fed up with the British, but ALL NATIONALITIES who have arrived and purchased second homes and who only visit twice a year and rent out for the rest.
To be honest in this case I think Brits are in the minority as we, as a nation have one of the poorest retirement incomes and most of us would have had trouble funding one home let alone two. In fact a huge number of Spaniards have second homes but they remain empty.

Also now Im going to be a pendant. The reason the Brits flock to Benidorm is down the SPANISH mayor of the time deciding he wanted some of that lucrative tourist money that was pouring into the Costa's, which was also pioneered by a Spanish person.
Oh yep thats right, your precious Malaga and the costa's where hoards of drunken Brits and Germans in the early and mid 70's flocked.
We had never heard of Benidorm. If you went to Spain in the 70's you went to the Costa del Sol..

I even (sadly) remember going on 18-30 holidays in the early 80's to such places as Torre del Mar, Marbella and the Mushroom place (Fungusrolla as we called it

Originally Posted by Barriej

Just means Spain actually needs them more than it does us who live here.

And finally Spain actually caused this problem and now it wants to end it.
I will bet you anything you like that nothing will happen long term. Yep the AirBNB thing will deflate, you wont be able to get a tourist licence for that flat you own but never visit.

Originally Posted by Lynn R

Torre del Mar? Are you sure about that, because I don't know where you would have stayed on an 18_30 holiday in the 80s. There are stiĺ only 2 hotels of any size there, the Mainake built in 2000 and the Andalucia Beach built in 2003. Other than those there are only small hostals and a lot of apartments most of which are owned by Spaniards and rented to tourists when they are not using them as their own holiday homes. I think you possibly meant Torremolinos.

Originally Posted by Barriej

Maybe it was.
I know the family holidayed in Torre del Mar in 1974 and 1976 (during the Uk heatwave). As I still have the slides from the holiday and the 8mm film somewhere (Im not joking)....
When you are 18 and go on holiday with a rowdy bunch, the location never seems to be important.
Dont think it was an 'official' club 18-30 anyway as it was all organised by someone we knew who worked at Beechams in Brentford...

But anyway. Memories eh...