The Costa del Sol and Malaga in Southern Spain has been hitting the headlines the past two months; for all the right reasons, with a plethora of much-needed positive and enthusiastic stories.

France is the number one tourist destination of the world, according to current figures released by the French Tourism Ministry but there has a major drop in the number of foreign visitors to France decreasing from 11.9% to 9.1% from 1990 to 2008. New resorts springing up in the emerging markets of Dubai, Morocco and Croatia are largely to blame for France’s tourism decline.

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Tourists are still travelling, that is the message being given out by some of the travel industry’s leading players. Despite the doom and gloom in the press and on the TV it seems that all may not be heading south in the worldwide economy.

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