Tourist Packages Lose Popularity

The number of visitors to the Costa del Sol who organised their own trip increased last summer by 18% in relation to the same period in 2005, according to the Costa del Sol Tourism Observatory.

Internet is the most popular medium
Of the 67% of tourists who acknowledged having organised their own trip, nearly 65% used Internet and the rest other media. On the other hand, the number of tourists using travel agents represented a quarter of the total, a drop of nearly 25% in relation to last year’s figures.

As to the popular services booked on the Internet, transport came first (90.5% of all cases), followed by accommodation (22%) and care hire (23%).