After the peak of tourist influx in the city of Dénia, both the tourism department and local businesses they have assessed the data collected during the months of July and August in the municipality.
The councilor of the area, Pepa Font, And the president of AEHTMA, Cristina Sellés, agreed that the joint commitment to increase quality, adjust prices and design new proposals has favored an increase in total visitors compared to 2013.
Councilwoman highlighted the July and August data-a 80 91% and% average occupancy respectively and said the crisis "It has made us sharpen the ingenuity and propose proposals of greater content, quality and quantity". Among other bets, the councilor highlighted the commitment to cultural heritage. And it is that the guided tours inside the castle have exceeded all expectations and double the figures recorded in 2013. In sports, the offer of sports in the beaches, expanded this summer and which has been widely accepted, exceeding 6.000 users of the activity.
Still, the president said Aehtma "This has been good in terms of occupation but below our expectations in other parameters such as average spending per tourist", A fact that the president attributed to the fact that "The improvement of macroeconomic data has not yet reached Spanish families".
Leisure, unfinished
Leisure is still a "pending subject", Because although some areas of the city have had a good influx of customers, "there is still an important exodus of young people to other populations".
Cristina Sellés there continues to deficiencies in infrastructure, and announced that his company is studying proposals for improvement that will raise the town hall.
Also this year the holidays have been conditioned with the beginning of the school year, much earlier than other years, which has contributed to improving family tourism figures "Since they have made the summer season very short."
I do not know if the City conducts surveys among tourists who come to our city. We turned to the beach Las Marinas and hear the comments people make, leisure theme is not mentioned as a fundamental lack of Denia. Yes you hear about the state of the beaches, dirt thereof, of the lack of collection bins and foul odors that often have to endure.
Anyone may have noticed that foreign tourists who years ago had a component of British and German presence has now been replaced by tourism French and Italian nationality and it is obvious what the economic powers other than those indicated nationalities.
If they really do not take seriously that people want to be on clean beaches, that they like to walk along promenades similar to Las Rotas (when Denia is fortunate to have a Marinas with miles of coastline), they like to sit in the beach bars and not only in the crowded Marqués de Campo, which would like to be able to go to a recreational activity center (cinema, games, restaurants, ...) if these investments are not made ... the economic quality of domestic tourism in Denia it will continue to be the same (great use of supermarkets) regardless of the country's economy and families.
I completely agree with you, Carlos.
Especially the beach theme Las Marinas I find amazing. What a shortsighted by the municipal authorities leave such a potentially attractive beach in such a marginal situation!
It would be very interesting to seriously undertake an infrastructure work, a seafront promenade in good condition (it does not have to be as luxurious as the one in Benidorm or Cullera, but not the "crappy" that they have made with four wooden boards) on the beach of Las Marinas, at least up to the wonderful Les Basettes park, totally underused.
How many cars from surrounding developments stay in their own parking lots, encouraged their owners to walk to the center of Denia by a beautiful promenade, which would mean decongestion of traffic in the city!