More tourist apartments than hotel rooms in the province of Alicante, do you also want to invest?

The Costa Blanca and the province of Alicante will close this year with 51,589 registered tourist apartments, which is 12% more than at the end of 2018. In 2019, 6,131 apartments were added, increasing the number of sleeping accommodations to 206,356 with 4 sleeping places on average per apartment. That is four times more than the 53,000 beds in hotels in the province of Alicante according to the association of hotel owners Hosbec.

Except in Benidorm where 8,499 tourist apartments are registered and there are more hotel rooms, all other municipalities have fewer hotel rooms than tourist apartments. Especially in the city of Alicante that difference is huge with 6,500 hotel rooms and nearly 15,000 sleeping places in tourist apartments. It is a true 'boom' of apartments intended for tourists, partly because the way of traveling has also changed, with people traveling more and spending less on an annual basis. According to the Exceltur lobby, although 51,589 tourist apartments are officially registered, the number of unregistered and therefore illegal tourist apartments is more than 86,000.

Valencia region

According to data from Turisme Comunitat Valenciana, there are 80,777 registered tourist apartments and houses throughout the autonomous region. The largest group can be found in the province of Alicante with 51,589 followed by the province of Valencia with 15,291 and the province of Castellón with 13,897 tourist accommodations.

Alicante province

51,589 tourist apartments are therefore registered in the province of Alicante, but how is that distributed among the municipalities. Most apartments can be found in Benidorm with 8,499 followed by Calpe with 4,864, Denia with 4,508, Torrevieja with 4,488, Jávea with 4,303, Alicante with 3,744, Teulada (Moraira) with 1,916, Santa Pola with 1,887, El Campello with 1,412, Guardamar with 565 and Elche with 485 tourist apartments.

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