Spain recovers one in three international tourists in 2019 and a third of spending

The lifting of travel restrictions at the end of summer has made

, at least when it comes to international tourism.

If the summer months were saved by domestic demand, the Spanish, in October and November have been international tourists.

October marked the best month of the entire pandemic, with more than five million foreign arrivals, while

, according to the figures published today by Frontur, the survey of border movements of the National Institute of Statistics (INE).

Regarding spending, the Egatur survey published today shows that

.

In the same month of 2019 there were more than 5,000, which means that more than 80% of the expense has been recovered in that month.

So far this year, 31,272 million euros have been entered, which is a third of the 91,000 million in 2019.

November also shows a positive data and that is that

.

They are 1,119 euros per tourist, compared to 1086 in 2019. Much of the tourism sector argues that the way to measure tourism growth should be spending data, and not so much that of arrivals.

So far this year, more than 28 million

international tourists have passed through our country, which means that we have already recovered (in the absence of knowing the December arrivals) one in three foreign tourists who visited us before the pandemic.

Without omicron

It must be taken into account that in October or

and we must see the impact of the new restrictions in the different countries and the increase in infections in the December data.

"

of pre-pandemic levels in international tourism, which will depend on its duration as we have seen in previous waves," said Reyes Maroto, Minister of Industry, Commerce and Tourism.

Although the pre-Covid figures are not even close, in October and November more foreigners have arrived in our country than in all of 2020. Not counting from January to March, when the pandemic had not broken out, Spain received just over eight million and a half of international tourists, which are those who have arrived between the months of October and November of this 2021.

According to Reyes Maroto, they

"which represents between 62% and 64% of those received in the same period of 2019" .

In 2019, more than 83 million international tourists arrived in our country.

Part of that momentum in the recovery in October and November

, our main source market.

In November, the United Kingdom again led the arrivals podium, with 597,458 tourists, (17.8% of the total), followed by France, with 496,579 tourists, and Germany, with 479,403 tourists.

The main destination for foreign visitors was the Canary Islands, which received one million foreign visitors, three out of every ten who visited us.

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