Alicante For You

ALICANTE City & Beach Tourist Board has launched a campaign on social networks in a bid to attract visits from the LGTBI community throughout Spain and Europe.

The campaign is expected to reach more than half a million people.

Under the umbrella of the Alicante For You campaign, Tourism has produced specific content in a specially designed communication campaign.

It takes into account the direct flight connections from Eu­

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ropean cities to Alicante.

The online campaign is focusing on the Spanish destinations of Madrid, Murcia, Albacete and Valencia.

Focus in Europe will be aimed at Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Bristol, Newcastle, Cardiff (UK); Frankfurt, Berlin, Cologne, Dusseldorf, Munich (Germany); and Brussels and Antwerp (Belgium).

The campaign hopes to improve the branding of Alicante as a tourist destination within the LGTBI community.

CARP-R-US kicked off (or should it be cast off) its Summer Autumn Series on the Rio Segura at Jacarilla. This stretch of river can be very moody, particularly if a match is being fished on it, and on the day, with levels down and dropping a further 20cms during the match, it was in one of its miserable moods!

Hot, muggy, overcast conditions probably didn’t help but everyone struggled to catch fish. First, from the upstream end peg, was Willy Moons with 3.06kg. Second, with 2.04kg (just two carp) was Roy Dainty. Roy used pole and caught one fish on corn, the other on maggot. Third was Tony Flett (1.54kg) with a mixed bag of small fish caught trotting maggot and fourth was Steve Fell with 0.66kg. The club would like to thank Paul Burton for spending some time clearing the pegs and paths ahead of the match. Further information about the club can be found on its website www.carp­r­us.weebly. com or on the Facebook page Carp­R­Us Fishing Costa Blanca.

1957

The first package holiday to Spain.