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A study, carried out by researchers from the Territorial Dynamics group of the University of Murcia (UMU), assures that, in the best of cases, the Corvera airport could start operating with guarantees and viability, transferring to it all the operations and personnel from San Javier, something that could only happen if finally Aena ends up winning the adjudication contest.
The article, published in the magazine Papers de Turisme, analyzes the equipment and air accessibility available in the Region of Murcia.
The objective is to relate this accessibility to the obstacle it poses to the growth and evolution of tourism activities in the Region.
The study reiterates that the tourism progress of the Region depends, to a great extent, on the development of air transport, just as the growth of the airline industry depends on improvements in the tourism sector.
This scenario poses several problems: on the one hand, the San Javier airport, which has drastically reduced its traffic during the last few years, does not seem prepared to simultaneously support the military function and that of a common airport.
On the other hand, the Corvera airport, which was completed more than five years ago, has still not been opened to traffic.
In this sense, Ramón García Marín, researcher of the group, affirms that air accessibility is essential for tourism development.
In fact, the article confirms that Alicante is one of the main Spanish tourist areas due to the Elche airport, considered by passengers of domestic and international flights as the best center equipped with services and connections in the surrounding territory, with more than 110 destinations .
The investigation shows that, among the main causes of the success of said airport, are the allocations referring to the tourist equipment, among which the great hotel capacity, the bulky number of marinas, golf courses, yacht clubs, etc. stand out. .
Undoubtedly, it is a clear example of direct connection between territory and airport.
All this taking into account the agile and efficient management of the airport, which has been adapted to the needs and changes.
On the other hand, the airport of San Javier offers a very different evolution.
During the course of its existence, it has been dependent on the circumstances.
From its beginnings in 1968 until the year 2000, its negligible proportions of passengers compared to the rest of Spanish airports confirmed its delay, mainly due to delayed airport facilities and very weak air links.
In the decade of the 2000 air traffic increased of spectacular form, but it was not motivated only by the improvement in the conditions, but by the appearance of a new context characterized by the irruption and expansion of the low-cost airlines like Ryanair or Easy Jet, and the real estate boom, with abundant building volumes that created a new offer, facilitating the arrival of foreign customers.
"Despite the fact that, for the first time, the growth in tourism and the increase in air traffic offered positive and promising data, the limitations and initial delays continued to weigh on the airport," says García Marín.
Taking into account the data presented on the airports of Murcia-San Javier and Alicante-Elche, the researcher ensures that the areas of influence overlap because the territorial space between them is very small, so it is affected by one of the airports with more influx from Spain.
The analysis carried out by researchers José María Serrano Martínez, Cayetano Espejo Marín and Ramón García Marín ratifies that the San Javier airport does not offer the necessary connections, so that most residents in the Region choose the Alicante option for their transfers.
For this reason, it is necessary to have an airport that can really constitute a gateway to the territory of Murcia: the Corvera International Airport, which is currently in the public phase of adjudication between the companies Aena and Aedis.
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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