8 Jul, 2017 @ 09:40
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Spain home to almost half of Europe’s most visited tourist sites, including Andalucia and Mallorca

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SPAIN is home to four out of 10 of Europe’s most visited tourism hotspots.

And figures from Eurostat released yesterday show the Canary Islands was the most visited site on the continent.

Catalunya came in third, the Balearic Islands – which include Mallorca and Ibiza – was ranked 5th, with Andalucia in 7th place.

The Canary Islands registered a total of 94 million overnight stays in 2015, while Catalunya had just over 70 million nights.

Nearly 90% of tourism nights spent in the EU are by EU residents, says the report.

In 2016, tourist spent a whopping and record-breaking €77 billion in the country according to figures from the country’s Ministry of Energy and Tourism.

The country is already on track to beat that figure this year.

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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