Well, many of these tourists decide to visit Grenada for their artistic, cultural, and monumental
features and enjoy their spring festivals (Easter and Corpus Christi).
It also generates tourism to Grenada, the number of congresses
of all kinds are held in the city and the number of independent travelers or
organized groups that come in from all over to see the city at any time of
year, as well as the growing number of foreign students enrolled in college
courses in Spanish or Erasmus.
The characteristic of tourism in Granada is that of a very short stay of
tourists in the city, which would generate a few nights in the many hotels
there are in the city and the metropolitan area. City provides a good service
in restaurants and hotels and infrastructure to facilitate the visit of
tourists.
Visitors come to Grenada
mainly motivated by knowing the resort of Sierra Nevada, located in the municipality of Monachil,
but they are required to pass through Granada to
access these facilities, resulting in many of these travelers’ decisions to
stay in Granada before going to Sierra Nevada.
Others visit because they are motivated by their Parimonio
History, especially the Alhambra
and its surrounding neighborhoods, Albaycin and Sacromonte. The Alhambra, in 2007, was one of 21 candidates for being one
of the seven new wonders of the world, the only monument of the Iberian Peninsula, which successfully classified, and was
in eighth position.
There are a large group of travelers, especially
schoolchildren from all corners of Spain,
who come in groups to visit the Science Park of Granada, being that it’s the only
of its kind that exists in Spain
The tourist infrastructure of Grenada in 2006 was that it had a
total of 314 local restaurants and tapas, 73 hotels of all categories, with
9289 seats available, 96 hostels and pensions, and 2160 available rooms in apartments
and youth hostels.
Andalusia is one of the autonomous communities of Spain
and receives more visitors annually from other Spanish communities and most
countries of the world highlighting the countries belonging to the European
Union.
Visitors usually go to Spain
to spend their holiday period, and they do it, preferably, on both coasts of
the Mediterranean (Costa del Sol) and the Atlantic Ocean
(Costa de la Luz).
