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Calella has participated once again at the Solmar Tours fair in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. The event has taken place throughout the weekend and has received more than 6,500 visitors, among which Calella has been promoted as a family and sports tourism destination.

This is the 8th edition of this meeting organized every year by the Dutch travel tour operator Solmar and which brings together hotels and tourist offices around the world to offer information directly to the final public. Tourism of Calella has participated this year with the aim of meeting new potential Dutch clients and that they can get to know Calella's offer first hand.

The Netherlands is one of the traditional issuing markets of our city. According to hotel occupancy data for this season, the Dutch market is ranked as the ninth most important with a total of 71,273 overnight stays, between May and October 2019, with a market share of 3.77%.

In relation to the preferred tourist products of the Dutch, according to data from the Catalan Tourism Agency, the destination of sun and beach and visits to large cities stand out, although there is a growing interest in active vacations, which allow combining practice of hiking and bicycle touring with the discovery of local culture.

In this sense, data from visits to the web calellabarcelona.com from the Netherlands show an interest in the contents related to the calendar of events, the Calella Lighthouse, culture (what to do), Ironman and nature routes. In relation to the demographic data of the visits, the origin is mainly located in the capital, Amsterdam, followed by the cities of The Hague, Rotterdam, Eindhoven, Groningen and Utrecht.