Who has visited Dénia this summer?
The summer season has already ended two months ago and although it was received with uncertainty and fear, the truth is that a large part of the tourism sector agrees that it was a more than positive summer. Now, with some differences from the previous ones.
Entrepreneurs saw people, neighbors saw people and the City Council, based on the data on garbage collection and water consumption, "saw" people. But, yes, many of the visitors were not those that we used to.
And this is confirmed by the National Institute of Statistics that has made public the result of a mobility study that has been carried out analyzing the movements of mobile phones in this second semester, specifically during July 18 and August 15.
The foreign visitor fell. The closure of borders and the strict sanitary measures greatly limited the movements between countries, something that was noticed in the tourist municipalities. However, this loss in Dénia was compensated with a greater flow of interior visitors.
The INE study shows that the majority of Spanish tourists came this summer from Madrid and Valencia, Dénia being one of the preferred destinations for 2020 in the latter capital. The capital of the Marina Alta has strengthened this visitor and, at the same time, has served as a claim for more of these destinations to be encouraged to spend a few days on our beaches and streets.
Of course, at the expense of Alicante. From our own province hardly any visitors were received. And not only that, but many of the residents of Dénia those days, whether they were neighbors or visitors, preferred to go to neighboring beaches than to stay in the city, especially to Gandia, as the aforementioned study shows.