Europa Magazine

Tourist Interest.

In the same way, during the month of June, the beaches of Orihuela will be promoted.

Under the title Orihuela: sun for the whole year, the magazine includes a report on the 16 kilometres of coastline.

The potential audience for this promotional action is more than one million readers, 84 per cent of travellers declared that they have read the magazine on board the plane. Of these, 51 per cent are men and 49 per cent are women, with an age ranging between 35 and 54 years. Half of the readers have high incomes. “We want to put Orihuela in the minds of the people who take those flights. We must promote ourselves as an important tourist destination within Spain,” the councillor added.

Anna Ellis

THE month of May has marked a historic series in terms of rainfall in the Vega Baja municipality, exceeding 100 litres per square metre in most of the region.

Pedro Jose Gomez Cascales, author of the MeteOrihuela Project, confirmed: “The rainfall record for a month of May in Orihuela and in the entire Vega Baja has been pulverized.”

Pedro added that this streak or wet trend, will continue until at least mid­June. It is due to the displacement of high pressures to the British Isles acting as a block