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The Valencia region experienced one of the country's highest hotel occupancy in May
May proved to be a bumper month for tourism on the Costa Blanca placing it amongst the top three holiday destinations in Spain.
Surprisingly, considering it's up against the likes of Benidorm, Valencia city attracted the highest number of tourists in the region last month and boasted the largest hotel occupancy rate with 69.53% of beds booked.
Regionally, Benidorm came in third place in terms of overnight stays with 916,451 in total, 573,339 of those were foreigners and 343,112 were Spaniards.
As a whole, the Costa Blanca recorded the third highest occupancy rate, with 63.63%, behind the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands, according to the hotel business survey published this week by the National Statistics Institute (INE).
Nationally, overnight hotel stays in May were four times higher than in the same month last year, totalling 29.8 million, and were only 7% below the pre-pandemic figures when 32 million hotel nights were booked.
And overnight stays by non-Spanish visitors last month exceeded 19.8 million, more than double those of domestic tourists (9.9 million).
Andalusia, Catalonia and the Valencia Region were the main destinations for domestic travellers, with 21.7%, 14.2% and 12.6% of the total number of overnight stays respectively. Amongst overseas visitors, the Costa Blanca was the fifth most popular destination with 6.3 % of the total.
The INE survey also revealed that hotel prices rose by 22.1% in May nationally and the profitability of the hotel sector, measured by the average daily revenue per available room (RevPAR), increased by 131.1 %, reaching 60.9 euros.
In the Valencia Region, prices rose by 16.22% and average revenue increased by 108.51% to 52.8 euros.
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