Spain receives over 7 million tourists in October – Investing.com Spain

MADRID (Reuters) – Spain received in October, 7.1 million foreign tourists, an increase of 11 percent compared with the same month of the previous year, according to figures released Wednesday by the National Statistics Institute (INE).

the United Kingdom remained the main source market in October, with nearly 1.7 million tourists, an increase of 6 percent compared to October 2015.

The data underpinning also the upward trend of the sector of Spanish tourism, which in 2015 broke the record of arrivals of 68.1 million visits and this year is heading to a new historical maximum above 70 million.

In cumulative terms, 67.5 million tourists have visited Spain in the first 10 months of the year, a rise of 10.2 percent compared to the same period of 2015.

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

But while France is accusing a decline in arrivals of tourists following the attacks in Paris and on the Côte d’azur, Spain is experiencing a strong rebound in tourism to be considered a safe destination compared to other places with geopolitical tensions and migration in the Mediterranean.

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