Stuck at home

AN alarming 200,000 British tourists are set to stay away from the Costa Blanca this summer.

And it’s not for want of coming.

There has been a 10% drop in the number of flights and seats from the UK to Alicante airport, it has been revealed.

The Costa Blanca Tourist Board has admitted that there are 67,000 fewer seats on planes flying from London Gatwick alone this summer than in 2019.

Boss Jose Mancebo insisted this was despite no reduced interest from the UK market -

BENIDORM’S Avenida Beniarda is scheduled to reopen today (Thursday) just in time for the summer rush, which can see it used by 30,000 vehicles a day.

It has been closed since September to allow for the construction of a new underpass.

The aim was to end traffic jams caused by trams on the Line 9 route crossing the road as they will eventually circulate above the new feature. The underpass - part of the €5 million project - is already open for emergency vehicles with the closure taking less than the previously announced 10 months.

Work above the underpass will continue over the next year or so.

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which still dominates foreign visitor numbers.

“The summer was planned a year ago which means there was a certain amount of conservatism in the number of flights scheduled,” he explained.