There is no doubt that the arrival of two thousand tourists at the port of Motril in just two days was a tremendous boost for the hospitality industry and commerce as well as an economic lever.
Thompson's cruise ship, the 'Thomson Dream' came yesterday to give joy to Motril and today arrived the ship,' Azamara Quest'.
It is the largest flood of tourists expected this year on the Costa Tropical.
Of the passengers arriving yesterday, 223 hired excursions to the villages of La Alpujarra and to see the Alhambra, the rest moved on their own.
The area of Tourism of the City of Motril, which moved to its technicians to the Port to cater to tourists, estimated were about eight hundred, almost entirely British, who came to the center and provided to the streets an unusual tourist city image, with maps, flip-flops and shorts.
The cruisers of this boat belonged to a younger and more familiar, unlike passenger luxury boats which so far had focused the port of Motril.
The municipal office of Tourism at the America Park yesterday attended to some 465 of the cruisers. They mostly requested information on places of interest and asked about shopping.
Most tourists used the free shuttles from the Port Authority to connect with the center although there were even those who chose to go to walk the distance from the port.
The impression of Motril from tourists consulted by this newspaper was mostly good.
