Last August, the Valencian Community had 58,337 active tourist homes, according to data recorded by the National Institute of Statistics. An amount that represents almost 13% more (12.86% exactly) than that registered a year before, in August 2022. As then, Andalusia is this year the only Spanish autonomy that has more tourist apartments than Valencia.
This growth rate, which exceeds 15% in the cases of the provinces of Valencia and Castellón, is notably higher than the national average, since the total of 340,424 tourist homes registered in the State as a whole is “barely” 9. 3% higher than the figure that the INE counted in August 2022 throughout the country.
Despite having seen its stock of apartments intended for the occasional accommodation of travelers grow to a lesser extent, the province of Alicante continues to be the most active among the Valencian provinces, and in the country as a whole, only Malaga is ahead. Specifically, Alicante now has 37,962 tourist homes, 11.45% more than it had twelve months ago. Meanwhile, Málaga has 39,041 and has grown almost in the same proportion.
In total, Valencian tourist leasing reached 302,921 available places last summer, of which 201,492 belonged to municipalities in the province of Alicante, 63,868 to the province of Valencia and 7,028 to Castellón. This number of vacation accommodation places represents 17.5% of the national total.
One of the data evaluated by the National Institute of Statistics in a report that it still describes as “experimental”, taking into account that it has only recently begun to do so, is the proportional relationship between the number of tourist homes and the total number of existing homes. in the same geographical area.
In this regard, it is worth highlighting the fact that the Valencian Community offers the highest proportion – 1.78% of the total housing stock – of the peninsular regions. The Canary Islands (4.08%) and the Balearic Islands (4.06%) are above, but neither Andalusia (1.69%) nor Catalonia (1.33%), which follow in the ranking, reach such a high percentage. Much less Madrid, which only dedicates 0.57% of its homes to tourist accommodation.
The “blame” for this data lies primarily with the province of Alicante, which already registers 2.82% of its total homes as holiday accommodation. A figure that is surpassed, however, by Girona (4.27%) and Málaga (3.92%).
By municipalities, in the province of Alicante, Torrevieja is the town with the most tourist homes (4,580), ahead of Dénia (3,647) and the capital, Alicante (3,418). Behind, Calp, Xàbia, Benidorm and Orihuela.
València is the municipality that has the most homes intended for tourist accommodation, 5,892, accumulating more than 40% of those existing in the province, followed by Gandia with 1,227.
In the province of Castellón, the first place in the ranking is occupied by Peniscola, which accounted for 1,640 tourist flats last August, ahead of Oropesa del Mar (1,364); Vinarós, Benicassim and Castelló de la Plana.
In the introduction to the report, the INE explains that to compile such complex data, given that there is no single and common registry in which all the homes with these characteristics appear, it has used the web scraping technique to extract information from the three platforms with the greatest offer of accommodation. For now, the study offers data twice a year. Those that were made public yesterday, the most recent available, correspond, as has been said, to August 2023.
