Benidorm: Not just for your mum

When your mum was young Benidorm was probably THE place to go.

And apparently it is again, this time for you - despite its reputation for sunburnt Brits in dubious swimwear.

The travel website TravelSupermarket analysed more than 3.5 million web searches.

It found 33% of users were looking for holidays in Spain or its islands. Majorca is the most popular destination.

It's followed by Tenerife, the Algarve, Ibiza, Lanzarote, Orlando, Gran Canaria - and good old Benidorm.

Benidorm was a small fishing village with only a few annual visitors but in 1953 the mayor decided tourism would help the local economy flourish.

A Roman Catholic nation, Spain had a strict ban on bikinis in place at the time. But the mayor got it lifted with help from former dictator General Franco.

And so the tourists began to arrive.

It was quieter in 1963...

It was Mayor Pedro Zaragoza's idea to develop the town upwards, instead of outwards.

And so high-rise apartments began to appear.

Then in 1967 Alicante airport opened and by the 1970s tourism was booming.

In 1980 it looked like this.

By 1980 it was a tight squeeze

In 2007 Greenpeace claimed that overbuilding was destroying the coastline

In the space of a year plans to build a total of nearly 3,000,000 new properties along 5,000 kilometres of coast were unveiled, according to Greenpeace.

And this is what the former fishing village looks like in 2015

Nice quiet getaway...

Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales shorts out of shot

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