Increase by 7.6% the number of foreign tourists in Madrid – Reuters

Increase by 7.6% the number of foreign tourists in Madrid – Reuters

MADRID, Aug 22 (EUROPA PRESS) -.

The Madrid received over 2.6 million international tourists until July, representing an increase of 7.6 percent with respect to mimsmo period last year and accounts for 7.3 percent of total visitors foreigners, according to data from the Survey of Movements Travel in Border (Frontur) broadcast Friday by the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism.

The region is the one with the third-year increase in the first seven months of the year, only surpassed in that respect the Canary Islands and Andalusia. In addition, the rise of Madrid is slightly higher than the national average, as in the whole country growth was 7 percent to more than 36.6 million foreign visitors.

In the month July, The Community concentrated a total of 352,675 international tourists, 4.7 percent more than in 2013 . With this, it is ranked as the sixth most autonomy receiving international visitors in that month.

At the national level, international tourist arrivals increased by 5.9 per cent to 8.3 million, this being the second best figure in history, surpassed only by August 2013.

As of July almost all major emitting countries contributed to this growth, including the UK, Germany and especially France, which contributed more than half a million extra tourists.

So, a month UK was ranked as the most important market with 23.3 percent of the total entries, up to 8.4 million visitors and an increase in 5.5 percent.

Germany was the second market that provided more non-residents to total growth, with about 5.8 million tourists and an increase of 6.6 percent, followed France, with over 5.6 million visitors, an increase of 10.8 percent.

The Nordic countries, the fourth largest market, rose 7.8 percent in the first seven . months of 2014, like the Netherlands, which grew 4.9 percent

Also noteworthy increases the Belgian market, which rose 19 percent, the largest increase; Italy, with an increase of 13 percent and the Swiss market, which achieved a growth of 10.7 percent.

In contrast, the Russian market fell 3.8 percent, with 806,843 tourists to July due to the devaluation of the ruble. In July alone, the decline was 2.1 percent.

Among the autonomous communities, Catalonia, with a rise of 5.7 percent, caught the largest percentage of foreign visitors with the arrival of 9 2 million, 25.6 percent of the total, followed by Canary, an increase of 11.8 percent and 18 percent of total arrivals to 6.5 million.

Behind them Baleares, third source market, with 6.2 million tourists, managed to rebound 0.8 percent leaving the decreases in the last six months was. Followed Andalusia, with over 4.7 million tourists, 13.2 percent of the total, registering a rise of 8.7 percent.

Meanwhile, Valencia recorded an increase 4.3 percent to over 3.4 million tourists, with 9.6 percent of total arrivals.