Very popular article from Spain identifying holiday venue (5)
I believe the answer is:
hotel
'holiday venue' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'very popular article from spain' is the wordplay.
'very popular' becomes 'hot' (I've seen this before).
'article from spain' becomes 'el' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'hot'+'el'='HOTEL'
'identifying' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for hotel that I've seen before include "The Dorchester, say" , "the last before coming to India" , "Lodge" , "Building where rooms and meals are provided" , "posada, perhaps" .)