Eleven tourist apartments in Santa Pola and four in Elche are removed from the tourism registry

The Valencian Community of Tourist Use residences (VUT) Tourism Registry is being updated by the Generalitat, which means that residences that have not submitted the necessary paperwork to stay in the registry will be removed from the census. Only four properties will be removed from the census, despite the fact that 803 will be deregistered throughout the province of Alicante. This is because the municipality of Elche is wagering more and more on the tourism industry. Eleven are in the Santa Pola case.

They have been found in the Marismas urbanisation, Playa Paraíso II, Paraíso I, and Gran Alacant, as well as in other already remote streets. In this way, the fishing village experiences exponential growth in the summer due to the influx of tourists from the rest of the country or second homes in the area, primarily from Elche.

When it comes to Elche, there are four residences in the hamlets, which are also the locations that see the most tourists during the busiest times of the year. Two in Arenales del Sol and two in L’Altet in this instance. The first apartment is located on Valladolid Street in the Infinity View residential area, while the second is located on Algeciras Street in the Ocean View Phase 1 development. L’Altet has two locations: one on a remote piece of rural property and the other on Vereda del Sur Street in the Los Limoneros development.

Only 200 of the 950 tourist apartments in Elche are now occupied.

Lastly, the outlying districts of Elche are where the majority of these tourist apartments are located. There are 950 VUT registered in the city, the City Council said, in reference to the housing issue that has been the focus of considerable discussion in recent months. According to this viewpoint, Elche is not a tourist destination that poses a problem and these serve to enhance the local hotel offerings. Only 200 of the 950 tourist units that have been registered are currently in use. Of these, 116 are in the city, 86 are in La Marina, 15 are in El Altet, 12 are in Jubalcoi, 671 are in Arenales, and the remainder are in other distant regions. However, the City Council last year approved the first building permission in the city for a particular tourist housing complex consisting of fourteen flats on Calle Beethoven.