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Spain's visitor numbers hit new highs as tourists avoid Middle East
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- "With all its virtues and its defects this is a place we feel proud of," he says.
- Fuster is the president of the local tourism association, and his family was one of the first to build a hotel in this Mediterranean city, in the 1950s.
- Benidorm's population is still only 77,000, but it swells to around five times that number in the height of summer, due to its status as one of Spain's prime tourism draws.
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Guy Hedgecoe Business reporter, Benidorm BBCSpanish tourist sector boss Fede Fuster says that overseas visitors must be made to feel welcome From the rooftop terrace of a hotel, Fede Fuster looks out across Benidorm, at the nearby high-rise buildings and the town's famous, sweeping beach.
"With all its virtues and its defects this is a place we feel proud of," he says. "It's a place of opportunities."
Fuster is the president of the local tourism association, and his family was one of the first to build a hotel in this Mediterranean city, in the 1950s.
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