Almost four out of every ten tourists who slept in Benidorm during the month of September were Spanish. The capital of the Marina Baixa registered a total of 396,024 overnight stays by national tourists in the ninth month of 2023, a figure that makes it the second tourist spot with the most hotel sales in the country, far surpassing Salou and Barcelona, third and fourth. with around 214 thousand nights each. And only behind the unattainable capital, Madrid, which added 618,673.
The second among the destinations in the Valencian Community where the most Spanish clients spent the night in September was Peñíscola (167,914), seventh destination in this particular ranking, behind the aforementioned, Roquetas de Mar and Seville. Valencia is in 12th place, with 125,222 Spanish sleepers; also behind San Bartolomé de Tirajana, Torremolinos, Puerto de La Cruz and Zaragoza.
Benidorm achieves its privileged position thanks to the fact that stays tend to be longer than in most peninsular destinations, especially urban ones. Which explains why it almost doubles the overnight stays of Spaniards registered in Barcelona or Seville, receiving, however, a smaller number of travelers than both cities.
As a whole, the Costa Blanca is the tourist area that added the most overnight stays by national clients, although in the total, also considering foreigners, it is the fourth, with 1.65 million, after the Costa del Sol, Tenerife and Barcelona, which surpassed the two million.
However, as is happening in the State as a whole, national tourism declines compared to last year (almost 17,000 fewer overnight stays in September), and it is the foreign traveler who boosts the accounts of Benidorm hoteliers, not only compared to 2022 ( 38,000 more nights), but even compared to the fabulous 2019 (8,000). So in total they have improved compared to last year, but without breaking the record of last September before the pandemic.
The data was published yesterday by the National Institute of Statistics, and among them it stands out that the Balearic Islands presented the highest degree of occupancy by places during September (79.5%). It is followed by the Canary Islands, with 73.4%, the Basque Country (69.8%) and the Valencian Community (66%).
Benidorm is also among the few peninsular destinations that exceed, in its case by a few tenths, 75% of occupancy per hotel bed, as do Torremolinos (84%), and San Sebastián (76%). Valencia and Gandia are getting closer, with their hotels exceeding 72% occupancy.
