Gandia is a medium-sized city strategically located in the south of the province of Valencia.
Its geographical location provides high environmental quality and excellent climatic conditions throughout the year. Consequently, the municipality has a great diversity of resources and unique attractions for travelers, in addition to an infrastructure and provision of services that give the city a dynamic and open character with a high quality of life.
The resources linked to the physical location, the historical legacy, the existence of an important heritage and a unique cultural identity have turned Gandia into one of the leading tourist destinations in the province of Valencia: urban and natural beaches, history and heritage, natural spaces protected areas, leisure, culture, sports and gastronomy. All this, in a destination recognized with seals and certifications of quality and sustainability.
| Admission to the Smart Tourism Destinations Programme |
Gandia has opted for its transformation as a Smart Tourist Destination. In this sense, it has begun the path towards the implementation of a Smart Tourism Destination model, through the development of the diagnosis process, the result of which has led to the obtaining, in November 2023, of a report and action plan based in the Smart Tourism Destinations methodology. |
| Outstanding initiatives
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- Sustainability is one of the pillars of the transformation of Gandia’s tourism model through the 3 Destination Tourism Sustainability Plans. The purpose of these plans is to form a more integrated and territorially cohesive tourist space, develop a more responsible and efficient management of tourist activity, based on innovation and the use of information technologies, and guarantee its long-term sustainability. A more complex space that will require the commitment of everyone, to minimize the impacts on the territory and also on people.
- Use of technology in projects to improve the management of tourist mobility (tracking and capacity control system, smart cameras for vehicle monitoring, etc.); installation of IoT sensorization for acoustic management and reduced mobility spaces; modernization and digitalization of tourist office services or IoT technology to know water consumption.
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Technical data
VAT number:
P4613300E Address: Plaça Major, número 1 Postal code: 46701 Telephone: 962 95 94 00 Region: Comunitat Valenciana Province:
Valencia/València Population:
Gandía Country:
España Local entity type: Ayuntamiento Date of membership:
13/10/2021 Diagnosis: Sí Diagnosis date:
13/11/2023 Destination Type:
Urbano marítimo Population:
75,911 Area (km²):
60.83 Density (inhab/km²):
1,247.92 No. of overnight stays:
2
Level in the Network: Nivel 3
