While Torrevieja may be the fifth largest city in the Valencian Community, it lacks a quality hotel and conference facilities.
While the new Conservatory of Music will soon be able to offer conference facilities, the city is lagging behind others in being able to attract conferences to the region. Not so however for the city of Benidorm, who in 2010 host to the ‘The Institute of Travel and Tourism’, at the Barcelo Asia Gardens in Benidorm on June 6-9.YouTravel.com have also reported that their winter bookings for the Costa Blanca is up 5% on last year, while for the summer of 2010 the area lies sixth behind the Algarve, Corfu, Sharm el Sheikh, Dalaman and Hurghada, all areas where the pound stretches a little further.
The ITT recognise that Spain and in particular the region of Valenica, has an extremely important part to play in the continued growth of the travel industry. ITT chairman Steven Freudmann added that “We are pleased that we can offer our delegates this opportunity of seeing the enormous investment that is being made in the region.”
While Torrevieja still has to come to terms that tourism euros shall not be flooding into local hotels, Benidorm continues to set the pace, lying second behind the more tropical Egyptian city of Sharm el Sheikh for YouTravel.com bookings for this winter season.
