2 Nov, 2016 @ 12:28
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Spain breaks summer tourism record with British tourists dominating figures

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Tourists crowd Palma de Mallorca's Arenal beach on the Spanish Balearic island of MallorcaSPAIN has broken its record for the amount of visiting foreigners in the summer period.

Tourism numbers were up 10.2% year on year in September, hitting 7.9 million people.

Combined with July and August, the total figure for international visitors rose from 25.2 million to 27.6 million.

The figures show that Brexit and a weaker pound have yet to spell an end for Britons’ love affair with Spain.

September alone saw two million Brits visit Spanish shores, 12.8% more than last year.

Out of the staggering 60.3 million people who visited Spain in the nine months up to September, Brits make up a lion’s share with 14.4 million.

Tourism authorities predict that by the end of the year, some 74 million tourists will have visited Spain, the equivalent of the entire UK population.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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