The Alhambra exceeds one million visitors in the first half of 2010

The Patronato de la Alhambra y Generalife has disclosed the number of visitors recorded during the first half of 2010. In that period more than a million visitors were counted, 1,035,535 visitors to be precise. This has led to an increase of 2.89% over the same period last year, when 1,006,404 people chose the monument as their destination to enjoy their leisure time.
 
The data, compiled by the Analysis and Data Unit of the Autonomous Body and including only figures related to tourism, marks the upward trend that has been occurring in the Monument since March, and coinciding with the Easter holidays, when 228,637 persons visited the Monumental Complex, which was 6.49% more than in 2009. However, in the first half of 2010, the highest rise in the number of visitors occurred during the month of June, when 190,726 people visited the Alhambra, which was 8.23% more than during the same period in 2009.
 
As for billing statistics concerning the stores located within the Alhambra complex (Ticket Office at the Generalife, Charles V, post-office) and the one situated at 40 Reyes Catolicos Street in Granada’s city centre, the study shows excellent billing results. From 1 January until 30 June 2010, the figure reached EUR 704,308.71, which is an 87.30 % increase compared to 2009, when it reached EUR 376,039.79. These figures are due to the increase of the surface of the stores (from 80 m2 store surface in 2009 to 300 m2 in 2010), as well as to the opening of two new stores in the current tax year (one at the ticket office at the Generalife and another in Granada’s city centre).