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MADRID, May 22 (Xinhua) – Spain received 16 million foreign tourists until April 2015, by 4.4 percent compared to the same period of 2014, according to data from the Survey of Tourist Movements in Frontera (Frontur), released today by the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism.
Again, UK, France and Germany were the markets who bet 53 percent of all visits, with significant increases in all of them, but less so in Italy, USA, Ireland, Belgium and down the Russian market and a sharp rise in Asian markets, says Frontur.
In this way the British tourists (20.5 percent of all international arrivals) rose 5.5 percent to nearly 3.3 million, followed by those from France (16.5 percent) , with 4.7 percent, to 2.6 million tourists.
While third is the German market with a 15.7, which increases slightly to reach 2 , 5 million tourists.
Then follow the Netherlands with 9.4 percent but down, to 1.5 million international arrivals, Italy follow after the 6.2 percent to the 990 444 travelers.
It should be noted, the same source indicates that the Russian market continued to drop until last April with a decline of 28.3 percent compared to the same months of 2014, it is ie 161 813 Russian tourists traveled to Spain.
Finally, all the Spanish autonomous regions except Canary year increases recorded between January and April, highlighting the 11.7 percent of the Madrid and the 9.5 percent of Baleares, Canarias but is, however, the second community with more foreign tourists in absolute terms, registering four million arrivals to April, 0.7 percent less, just behind Catalonia, which tops the standings with 4.1 million visitors, up 4.5 percent from a year earlier.
Andalusia ranked third by adding to April to nearly 2.2 million tourists foreigners, up 6.8 percent
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