Madrid/Oviedo (EFE).- Gijón ranked twelfth last year in the ranking of the most competitive cities in tourism, among the twenty-two urban destinations analyzed in the UrbanTUR 2022 report carried out by the Alliance for Tourism Excellence, Exceltur.
Gijón has lost two places compared to the classification prepared in 2016.
According to the latest report, Madrid has surpassed Barcelona, which loses the top position it held in the two previous years (2013 and 2016).
As reflected in this classification of tourist cities -which reveals and compares in each case the best local policies applied to tourism and orders the cities according to 64 indicators- Madrid and Barcelona are followed by Valencia, with third place, and San Sebastián, with fourth .
Seville (5th) and Palma de Mallorca (6th) have improved one position compared to six years ago, and Malaga, on the other hand, (7th) has lost two.
The following cities in the ranking are Bilbao, Santiago de Compostela, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Valladolid, Gijón, Zaragoza, Santander, Granada, Salamanca, La Coruña, Alicante, Murcia, Burgos and León.
Of these cities, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Valladolid and Córdoba have advanced one position compared to the previous year, and A Coruña is the only one that has risen two positions.
As Exceltur clarifies in a statement, “the ones that occupy the first positions are not necessarily synonymous with optimal management and, on the contrary, those that occupy the last positions are associated with poor management, since it is the middle level among them that mark the different scales in the positions.” EFE