I have a similar survey running.
Mine is slightly different in the respect that I polled tour operators as well and the objective was to determine which areas would recover first from the (now inevitable)
Spanish Tourism and Real Estate Crisis.
The reason for polling tour operators as well is because tourism and real estate are connected in some respects and areas that are popular with toursist should have buoyant real estate values. Here "buoyancy" meaning the relative ability to float, whatever the level of the water.
To date my survey has attracted 9 participants and the SREF 10. The results are significantly similar. Webmaster has not quite selected the same areas but my results can easily be compared with his by consolidating his Andalucia, Granada and Costa del Sol with my C de S. He does not distinguish between Balearic and Canary Islands, which is unfortunate as they are really "worlds apart".
I allowed my pollers to place the areas in order and awarded points from 1 - 10. Areas not voted for received a 5 and my points are the average.
ToniW (for example) had a lot to say about Valencia but, because she was unable to comment on other areas (and was obviously biased), her vote could not be counted.
The consolidated results so far (SREF%) (Survey Average) (Consolidated Area) -
40% - 9.29 - Costa Blanca North Alicante to Denia
0% - 7.57 - Balearic Islands Mallorca and Menorca
0% - 7.29 - Costa Blanca South Alicante to San Pedro del Pinatar. including Torrevieja
20% - 6.86 - Costa del Sol Gibralta to Motril
10% - 6.71 - Costa Calida/ Almeria Motril to San Pedro del Pinatar
30% - 5.43 - Costa de Valencia Denia to Valencia
0% - 5.29 - Canary Islands Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, Fuertaventura and Tenerife
0% - 5.00 - Costa Brava Barcelona to the French Border
0% - 5.00 - Costa Dorada Vinaroz to Barcelona
0% - 5.00 - Costa de Azahar Valencia to Vinaroz
When the SREF poll is complete I intend to consolidate it with mine but adjust for duplications (with webmaster's permission of course and giving all contributors a link).
Please lets have some more response to the SERF survey. You might also like to look at the
Spanish Tour Operators and Estate Agents Survey. The Spanish Tourism Crisis: One of my contributors stated "but Spain has supposed to have enjoyed record tourist levels this year". Nothing could be further from the truth because the stats have been fatally distorted.
Unfortunate because this error could have a profound effect on what happens to the real estate sector.
The World Tourism Authority publish yearly stats. France has always been the world No.1 tourist destination and Spain No.2 for at least 10 years. In 1995 34.9 million toursits came to Spain and that increased to 58.5 million in 2006.
Now that looks great, an increase of 68%, and that is what the Spanish Tourist Authority likes to tell everyone.
They are burying their heads in the sand and deceiving everyone.
Now France is not even really No.1, the pole position goes to USA and China is coming up fast to threaten Spain's No. 2 position. The reason is that they are counting tourist arrivals and not the total number of days that tourists stay.
Lots of travellers arrive at one side of France and leave on another the next day TWICE during a holiday somewhere in Europe - so that counts them right out.
Spain has a similar problem with the stats
due to the trend for shorter, more frequent short-haul holidays.
If you say that the average stay in 1995 was 12 days and in 2006 it was only 8 days the numbers for millions of tourist days was 419 and 468 respectively.
This represents an increase of only 10.5%, whereas overall world tourism increased by 64% during the same period.
Spain has no real problem with tourism earnings as it remains in No.2 position behind the USA but it is the supply and demand for accommodation that they should be looking at because it has an adverse effect on real estate values.
Counting all tourists beds, in hotels, villas, apartments and aparthotels what has been the real increase in supply. 100%? 200%? Even more than this?
No real figures can ever be published because of the collosal clandestine renting industry but the cited fact that there are 3 - 4 million unoccupied properties gives a good general idea.
It was calculated that there were 400,000 properties (legal and illegal) available for tourist renting in 1997 and, in my opinion there are 1,200,000 right now.
I'll go for 300% - which is an absolute disaster for any estate agent who might wish to persuade clients to buy2rent.
Applying the previous figures and allowing for the fact that each non-resident Spanish property owner uses the property himself for 4 weeks
the adjusted rental expectancy has fallen from 20 weeks in 1997 to 5.5 weeks in 2007.
Is it possible that the Spanish Authorities just don't understand? Not at all - they tell you one thing and believe something else.
That is exactly why there is now a desperate attempt, which is estimated to cost 800 million Euros each year.
Article: The Spanish Rental Subsidies. Article: Spanish Real Estate Crash. Article: The Spanish Tourism Crisis.
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