Hotel Bid

Santa Pola council is to make contact with major national and international hotel operators in a bid to get at least two new hotels in the area, including Gran Alacant. The municipality has been without a hotel since the three-star JM Marina Palace (pictured) closed six years ago, leaving a building that has been repeatedly vandalised.

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Tourism councillor, Mercedes Landa, says that she is speaking to other council departments and officials and they intend to make contact with hotel companies pitching the Santa Pola area as a perfect location to open a hotel, both for tourists and for business visitors.