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The companies of regulated holiday flats of the Costa Blanca lost 900,000 overnight stays of clients in 2018, 13% of the business / The sector accuses the slump of foreign tourism and the impact of the rent alegal Slowdown of tourist apartments in Alicante One of the areas with a slump in tourist apartments was Benidorm. The Alicante coast registers the lowest occupation of its entire history: 36.71%. If 2018 has been a year of transition for hotel activity on the Costa Blanca, for tourist apartments it has been a backward exercise. The Alicante coast is still the tourist area of ​​Spain that attracts more national clients with its offer of holiday flats. No other enclave (the islands of Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, the Costa del Sol, the Costa Brava, the Costa Dorada, in addition to the islands of Mallorca, Ibiza and Formentera) records more overnight stays by Spanish tourists than the Costa Blanca: 334,000 travelers and 2,016 million overnight stays in the apartments distributed from Dénia to Torrevieja.