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Spain received 78% more foreign tourists in July

Spain welcomed in July about 4.4 million international tourists, 78.3% more than in the same month of 2020, and their total spending stood at 5,231 million, 112% more than the 2,458 million a year earlier.

The increase in foreign visitor entries in July this year compared to the past is largely explained by the fact that en 2020 the state of alarm had barely been lifted and international movements were much more limited.

Compared to June, the number of foreign tourists practically doubles; Nevertheless, the figures are 55.5% lower than those of July 2019, when Spain received 9.87 million international tourists, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics.

874,189 tourists came from France who visited Spain in July, 19.9% ​​of the total, and 46.6% more than a year earlier, making the neighboring country the leading source of international tourists.

Germany and the United Kingdom were the next countries with the most tourists in Spain at the start of the summer: 707,331 German travelers, 64.5% more, and 555,183 British, 46.5% more.

However, the coronavirus pandemic has caused Spain to receive 9.8 million in the first seven months of the year, compared to 13.2 million in the same period of 2020 and very far from the almost 48 million foreign tourists on the same dates in 2019.

In the accumulated of the year, France is once again the main country of origin of tourists, with about 2.1 million visitors, 1.8% more, followed closely by Germany, with almost 1.9 million tourists, 6.4% more.

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