Exceptional tourist season for Spain with 31 million foreign travelers
Spain saw a record tourist season this summer, if received 31 million foreign passengers between June and September / September last two, which puts on the road to achieve exceptional tourist year. According to official figures released by the Ministry of Tourism. The ministry said in a statement to an increase of 6.9% in tourist traffic compared with the same period last year
In September / September only, visited seven million foreign tourists visited Spain. The British were the most numerous among these, followed by the Germans and the French, and represent these three nationalities and only 62% of the total foreign tourists in Spain
Continued the number of Russian tourists visiting Spain decline, as in this period amounted to 194 thousand tourists, a decrease of 19.5%, and this is due mainly to the weakness in the value of the ruble against the euro, in addition to the Ukrainian crisis
The most attractive tourist destinations in Spain were Catalonia and the Balearic Islands and Andalusia region. Between January and September / September, Spain received 52.4 million foreign tourists, an increase of 7.4% compared with the same period of last year
This is the country that attracts tourists mainly for the beauty of its beaches and cultural richness of the cities, especially Barcelona and Madrid, moving aggressively to achieve exceptional tourist year after the excellent results achieved in 2013, which saw the visit of 60.6 million foreign tourists visited Spain
Tourism represents one of the most important economic activities of Spain, as the form of the sector in 2012, accounting for 10.9% of the GDP of the country, and provided 11.9 percent of jobs, according to the latest available economic data
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