The Spanish tourism sector do not notice any impact Brexit in July – Investing.com Spain

MADRID (Reuters) – Spain in July received 9.6 million foreign tourists, representing an increase of 9.3 percent over the same month last year, according to figures released Tuesday by the National Statistics Institute.

Britain remained the largest source market in July, with almost 2.2 million tourists, an increase of 11.4 percent over July 2015, despite the referendum on the Brexit, resulting weakened the pound and decreased the qdquisitivo power of the British in the eurozone.

the data also underpin the upward trend of the Spanish tourism sector, which in 2015 broke the record of arrivals with 68.1 million visitors and this year to a new record goes above 70 million.

in cumulative terms, 42.4 million tourists visited Spain in the first seven months of the year, up 11.1 percent compared to the same period of 2015.

the main destination in July was Catalonia with 2.4 million tourists, followed by the Balearic islands and Andalusia .

Spain is the third largest tourist destination in the world behind France and the United States, a sector that contributes around 11 percent of GDP and is one of the main generators of employment.

But while France is accusing a decline in tourist arrivals following the attacks in Paris and the French Riviera, Spain is still regarded as a safe destination. Between January and May, Spain would have received 2.2 million additional tourists geopolitical instability in other Mediterranean countries, according to estimates by Exceltur, an employers of the main Spanish tourism companies

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