About Infocostadelsol.com

The Costa del Sol attracts millions of visitors every year.
Expats settle here in growing numbers.
Tourists return season after season.
And yet, finding reliable local businesses online remains harder than it should be.

infocostadelsol.com changes that. This is a curated, multilingual business directory covering the full length of the coast, from Nerja and the Axarquia in the east to Manilva and Sotogrande in the west.

What this platform does

infocostadelsol.com connects local businesses with the people who are actively looking for them: tourists planning their stay, expats building their life here, and residents in search of trusted services. Real estate, hospitality, legal advice, healthcare, beauty, construction, restaurants: every sector that matters on the Costa del Sol has a place on this platform. Every listing is structured for search visibility and written to perform, not just to exist.

Who finds businesses here

The platform serves three distinct audiences. Tourists use it to find restaurants, activities and services during their visit. Expats rely on it for everything from legal support to local contractors. And local residents use it to discover businesses they can trust, often for the first time online.

Founded by an SEO specialist with European reach

infocostadelsol.com was founded by Femke Vanhoutte, a Belgian entrepreneur based in Cómpeta in the Axarquia mountains of Malaga province.

She is the founder of The Spotlight Agency, an SEO subscription agency serving businesses across Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom or anywhere in the world. With nearly a decade of hands-on SEO experience across multiple industries and markets, she brings a level of technical depth to this platform that goes well beyond standard directory management

From the classroom to the Costa del Sol

Her background starts in education. She trained and worked as a teacher of Dutch, English and Public Relations, which shaped how she approaches content, communication and audience from the ground up.

That foundation led her into digital marketing, SEO and content strategy, and eventually to building her own agency. Moving to Cómpeta was not a career pause. It was the moment that made infocostadelsol.com possible.

Keynote speaker on Google, Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude.ai and AI in general

Femke speaks at business events and conferences across Europe on artificial intelligence and modern search. Her sessions cover how Google works, how large language models like Google Gemini process and surface information, and what businesses need to do to stay visible in an AI-driven search landscape.

She translates complex mechanics into decisions organisations can act on immediately. That same expertise goes directly into how infocostadelsol.com is built and maintained.

Her work in education did not stop in the classroom. Femke regularly delivers guest lectures at universities and higher education institutions on SEO and artificial intelligence, sharing practical knowledge with the next generation of marketers, communicators and business professionals. That academic engagement keeps her thinking sharp and her methods grounded in what actually works.

A local team on the Costa del Sol

infocostadelsol.com is not run remotely. The platform operates from Cómpeta, with a dedicated local team active across Costa del Sol municipalities.

Businesses are visited in person. Listings are verified. Outreach happens in Spanish and English, by people who live and work in this region. The directory reflects the real business landscape of the Costa del Sol, not an automated approximation of it.

New services are being developed regularly as the platform grows.

A lot of business on the Costa del Sol are invisible online

Many local businesses still rely on a Facebook page as their only online presence. No Google ranking, no searchable listing, no way for the thousands of monthly visitors to this region to find them.

infocostadelsol.com gives those businesses a professionally built, SEO-optimised page that works around the clock. The gap between visible and invisible is closing. The businesses that move first are the ones that benefit most.

The right moment to get listed is now

infocostadelsol.com is already generating thousands of views per month, and growing. The platform runs active Google Ads campaigns that drive targeted traffic from tourists, expats and locals who are ready to spend. The businesses listed today are the ones that show up first, rank highest and get remembered.

Founding member rates, for a limited time

Current subscription rates are launch prices. They will not stay at this level as the platform scales across the full Costa del Sol. Getting listed now means locking in the lowest rate this platform will ever offer, while visitor numbers are already climbing and competition for visibility is still wide open.