The Nautical Station brand allows to distinguish those Spanish tourist destinations that are characterized by good conditions for the practice of nautical sports (sailing, diving, windsurfing, etc.) and wish to specialize as a destination of nautical tourism. A Nautical Station offers an organized and varied offer of nautical tourism that allows to market integrated services similar to ski resorts (accommodation, sports activities, complementary activities).

Most of the Nautical Stations are coastal destinations, and nautical tourism is a good opportunity to reposition some sun and beach destinations. But there are also nautical inland stations on river and lake banks. The concept of Nautical Station promotes cooperation at all levels:

• Between water service companies and tourism companies.
• Between municipalities in the same area. Some Nautical Stations are made up of more than one municipality.
• The public and private sectors.
• In each Nautical Station, tourism and nautical services companies for visitors, along with federations, public administration and other relevant actors, have formed an association with a manager.

The Ceuta Nautical Station is located in an unbeatable place to enjoy a wide variety of tourist proposals, distinguishing itself from other national tourist destinations because they are in northern Africa, and can enjoy the advantages of being between two seas and two continents. Among its products activities such as diving, cetaceans watching, sports fishing, sailing and guided routes on our coast or in kayak, courses of nautical formation and diving, mooring and repair of embargoes, cycling, hiking and quality accommodation.

The Nautical Stations aim to ensure a quality level of the product that ensures a satisfactory experience for customers and makes it possible to place Spain as a leading destination in world nautical tourism. The Nautical Stations are integrated into the Spanish Association of Nautical Stations (AEEN) that has defined quality standards that must meet both the destinations and the companies associated with each nautical station. In order to meet the established quality standards, EAEN provides technical assistance and training to destinations that are incorporated into the Spanish Nautical Station network and audits.

Benefits for tourist destinations

• Diversification of your tourist offer with new products aimed at capturing new segments, lengthening the tourist season and increasing the cost per visitor.
• Advice on quality standards to meet the expectations of the nautical tourism segments.
• The possibility of achieving synergies in joint advocacy with other destinations at the national and international levels.
• Increase in economic activity throughout the year and generation.

The Nautical Station of the Rías Baixas, stands out for its gastronomy for its excellence: seafood and fish, irrigated by wines from Albariño. Along the Ria de Arousa to Sanxenxo you can find sixteen ports, making it the ideal place for the practice of any sport that has the sea as the basis: sailing, sports fishing or diving.

Benefits for members of the Nautical Stations

• Quality brand that gives customers confidence and helps to sell.
• Guidance on quality standards to be met by services and equipment to meet demand requirements.
• Support for the development of differentiated products of nautical tourism.
• Participation in the Joint Promotion Plan: printed materials, workshops, specialized fairs, press trips,...
• Presence on the national portal enjoys elmar.com for both the national and international markets.
• Negotiation with operators, online portals and other commercial channels.
• Specialized training.
• Organization of events and days.

Benefits for customers

• The Nautical Station brand is a guarantee of service quality and equipment.
• Centralized information service on the nautical and central supply of reserves that simplify the effort to be made by the potential customer to access the offer.

Sant Feliu de Guíxols Costa Brava has a privileged coastline: with crystal clear waters, a fantastic natural environment. It is in the heart of the Costa Brava, with the purest essence of this nomenclature: Mediterranean taste 4.5 km of coastline

Currently, AEEN has 30 associated destinations involving 45 municipalities in 9 CCAA and a total of 1,650 tourism and nautical services companies.
In a very competitive market environment, nautical tourism is a great opportunity to reposition and energize beach destinations, but it is necessary for the actors of the destinations to work together in better conditions. The AEEN is the Spanish Nautical Tourism Product Club, a link that links:

• To the actors of the nautical and the tourism sector, promoting the development of specialized and quality products, and the improvement of the conditions of the destinations.
• To supply with demand, through coordinated commercial action.

The partners pay contributions to the EAEC, although they account for a small part of the budget of the association as the EAEC manages public aid, including:

• Agreement with Spain and the CCAAs (renewed annually)
• Artepyme Programme (2005- 2006)
• Progress Plan (2007-2008)
• Progress Plan (2009-2010)

AEEN has been recognized by the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade as an Innovative Business Grouping (AEI) and, in 2009, we lead the organization of the First Nautical Tourism Congress, which, in its conclusions, formally requested the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade to convene a Nautical Tourism Table to resolve the issues that hurt the competitive situation in the sector.

It is designed as a tourist area that, benefiting from the island's unbeatable climatic conditions, offers many nautical activities throughout the year, complemented by the wide and varied hotel offer. Activities such as sailing, boat excursions, cetaceans watching, windsurfing, surfing, rowing, motoronautics, parasailing, sports fishing and diving are only some of the possibilities offered by Gran Canaria Nautical Station (with 236 km of coast).

Activities that can be carried out in a Nautical Station

• VELA
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• WINDSURF
• SURF
• ALQUILER VELA EMBARICATIONS
• ALQUILER MOTOR EMBARICATIONS
• MARITIME EXCURSIONS
• DEPORTIVE FISH
• KAYAK
• ACUATIC MOTES
• ESQUI BUS
• NATIC SQUI
• SUBMARINISM
• SNORKELING
• KITESURF
• PARASAILING

The island of Menorca is a Biosphere Reserve. In 2013, we celebrated the 20th anniversary. This means that your natural environment is amazing. Virgin beaches, forests, cliffs, a sea of crystal clear waters... a spectacular environment in which to practice your favorite sport or try it for the first time. Hiking, BTT, golf, spa, horse riding...

The Nautical Stations of Spain

Andalusia. Lake of Andalusia (Córdoba)
Balearic Islands. Menorca
Balearic Islands. Llucmajor - Palma Bay
Balearic Islands. Santa Eulalia- Ibiza
Balearic Islands. Sant Antoni and Sant Josep
Valencia Community. Benicarló-Peñíscola (Castellón)
Canary. Gran Canaria (Las Palmas)
Catalonia. Costa Daurada (Tarragona)
Catalonia. L'Estartit-Olles Medes (Girona)
Catalonia. Cap de Creus (Girona)
Catalonia. Sant Carles de la Rápita-Delta de l'Ebre (Tarragona)
Catalonia. Sant Feliú de Guixols-Costa Brava (Girona)
Catalonia. Santa Susanna (Barcelona)
Catalonia. Vilanova i la Geltrú (Barcelona)
Ceuta. Ceuta
Galicia. Rías Baixas (Pontevedra)
Madrid. Sierra Norte de Madrid (Madrid)
Murcia. Cabo de Palos (Murcia)

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