Spain already recovers 70% of the tourists it had before the pandemic

Tourism figures

In March four million international tourists arrived in our country and spent 5,069 million, compared to the 5.6 foreigners who had visited you in 2019, before the health crisis and the last year of normality.

70% of the arrivals that existed before the pandemic and 80% of the expenditure are recovered.

The surveys of border movements (Frontur) and spending (egatur) published today by the INE show

when mobility restrictions still weighed heavily.

At that time, barely half a million internationals had arrived in our country.

The Covid passport, vaccination, but above all the removal of restrictions, has brought travel back.

The proof is that

our main source market but which had been absent for almost the entire pandemic,

Specifically, 826,399 tourists did so, which represents 20.5% of the total.

So far this year we have been visited by almost 10 million tourists.

In the same period last year it was barely a million.

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Spain closes its first quarter of 2022 with good data on international tourist arrivals and tourist spending, a trend that we hope will intensify in the summer period," said the Minister of Industry , Commerce and Tourism, Reyes Maroto.

Origin and destination

After the British, the tourists who visited us the most were Germans and French, our traditional markets, although the INE highlights growth in countries such as Ireland, the US or the Nordic countries.

The most visited destinations were the

which attracted one million tourists out of the four that visited us in March, followed by Catalonia and Andalusia.

In terms of spending, the March figure is 1,000 million below the 2019 data, but it is much higher than the 500 million of 2021.

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