MAZARRÓN showed an increase of visitors during the first half of 2011 over the previous year.
Mazarrón has had this year a greater number of visitors compared to 2010 in regard to the first half. According to data from the web portal "Murcia Turística", in relation to the number of travellers in hotel occupancy, ie, those travellers who have stayed in hotels or pensions in the municipality, the visitors have gone from 15,595 in 2010 to 16,282 in this year. This represents an increase of 4% during the first 6 months of the year compared to the time period between January and June 2010.
Also, note that travelers who have visited our town come mostly from within Spain. Of the 16,282 visitors we had in the first half of 2011, 13,087 were domestic tourists. This has meant an increase of 339 people compared to 2010. This increase in domestic tourists has also given the number of foreign visitors, 3,195 visitors in 2011 compared to 2847 in 2010.
But Mazarrón has not only grown in number of visitors, but has also been a notable increase in overnight stays and average stay of these visitors, 14% and 12.8% respectively. At regional level, presents the same statistics at the local level with an increase in the number of visitors, both in the number of foreign and domestic tourists. Specifically, it has seen a 18% increase in hotel occupancy, up 29.8% of foreign tourists and 15% of Spanish rather than in the first half of last year.
There is a lack of official data at the moment but it also promises a positive summer for tourism in Mazarrón. with an expected increase in occupation over the past year. Also, the first data concerning the month of July collected by the Tourist Office Puerto de Mazarrón show a clear increase of visitors is also expected to occur during the month of August.
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