Spain

received only one in four tourists this March

of those who arrived in the same month of 2020, just when the pandemic broke out.

Although in the first weeks of that March the state of alarm had not yet been decreed and there was mobility, in the second half of March the borders were closed and mobility was nil.

This March

, barely half a million tourists arrived in our country, 75% less than in 2020

, but if compared to the pre-pandemic year, 2019, the drop is 85%, according to data from the survey on border movements ( Frontur) published today by the INE:

So far this year,

only 1.2 million tourists have come, compared to 10.6 million in the same period

(January-March) in 2020. Therefore, more than nine million arrivals have been lost.

As a consequence, spending in March has fallen by 76% compared to the same month in 2020.

A little over 500 million were entered, according to Egatur

(the INE survey that measures spending), compared to 2,215 that were entered in March 2020, already in a pandemic

.

In all so far this year the drop in revenue is 89%.

1,286 million were collected, compared to 11,707 million in the first quarter of 2020

.

More than 10 billion euros have been lost in the period compared to 2020.

French

If before the British were the foreign tourists who visited us the most, now they are the French.

This is something that has been happening throughout the pandemic, partly because of the proximity to the Gallic country and also because of the restrictions that the United Kingdom has placed on its citizens.

In March 109,647 French arrived.

There are two out of 10

of those who visited us, but 60% of those who did so in the same month of 2020. After them, it was the Germans and Italians who arrived the most, although with falls of 63% and 51%. .

The Canary Islands have been the destination chosen by two out of every 10 visitors (mainly Germans), followed by Catalonia and Madrid, with 17% and 14% and both with France as the country of origin.

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