Edition 245
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Friday 30th October 2015
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WINNER OF PET IDOL 2015
After the votes have been counted and checked, we can now reveal the winners of Pet Idol 2015. The Courier Pet Idol 2015 Winner is ....... See page 12.
ALEX TRELINSKI
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pain has broken yet another tourism record after welcoming 54.4 million international visitors up until the end of September, according to the Industry, Energy and Tourism Ministry. The new figure is three point eight percent higher than calculations taken at the end of September 2014 for the same nine-month period. Last month, Spain broke its all-time record for the number of foreign tourist arrivals up to August when it registered 47.2 million visits – a four point one percent rise from the first eight months of 2014. The latest figures from the ministry's Tourism Border Movements Survey (Frontur) show that once again most visitors came from Britain, Germany and France – which together make up more than half of all tourists entering the country. In all, Spain received two million more tourists than in 2014 over the same nine-
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half percent rise over 2014's figures. The Valencia region, including the Costa Blanca, welcomed five point three million tourists over the first nine months of 2015, a rise of four point two percent on last year's returns. Not surprisingly the record visitor numbers have led to record spending in Spain by tourists with figures showing an increased expenditure of just over six percent over the first nine months of 2015
compared to the same period last year. Just under 54 billion euro hit Spanish coffers this year thanks to the tourists, which amounts to 197 million euro a day going through the cash registers and card machines. British spending was up by over ten percent, and a quarter of all tourist expenditure in Spain comes from the UK, with big rises in spending also noted amongst visitors from the Far East.
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