Valencia Cominidad Suffers a huge drop in tourists

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Valencia Life Network now reports that the latest figures have revealed that there was a considerable drop in tourists to the Valencian Community during the first two months of this year, falling by 24.6% when compared with January and February of 2008. By market sectors, the biggest drop was in the British, with 22.1% less for Spain nationally than last year. The next biggest drop was in the German visitors that fell by over 11% nationally.

Guide2Valencia comment

The fact that the main drop is from the UK, we would ask if this has something to do with the Ryanair saga.  See the following news stories regarding Ryanair and Valencia: -

1. 11th March 2009
2. 7th March 2009
3. 3rd February 2009
4. 14th December 2008
5. 26th November 2008
6. 11th November 2008
7. 4th November 2008
8. 29th October 2008

New Route Valencia New York: -

17th November 2008

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