The forecast is fine for sun & sea holidays

The Costa del Sol is looking forward to the 2011 holiday season with optimism and plans to extend and improve leisure facilities on the beaches. The optimism is based on figures for 2010 showing a 1.1% increase in visitor numbers compared with the previous year and other positive indicators, while promoters of such amenities as spas, creches, yoga and pilates sessions are just awaiting the green light which will come in April when competence over the beaches is transferred from the Costas authority to the Junta de Andalucia.
Airport growth above average To be precise the increase in passengers using Malaga Airport in January was 8.1 per cent, two percentage points higher than the average for Spanish airports. This was the second greatest increase out of all of Spain’s large airports, behind Barcelona which started 2011 with an increase of 20 per cent. According to figures for last month released by the airports authority Aena, in January 589,994 passengers used the terminal on 6,329 flights. The figures are a vast improvement on 2010 when passenger figures fell in January. Also last month the number of passengers on international flights landing at or taking off from Malaga Airport increased by 6.8 per cent. The majority came from or travelled to the UK, 187,322 passengers, while 46,257 travelled between Malaga and Germany, and 26,070 between Malaga and France.
Source: The Sur in English