15 Jul, 2017 @ 13:00
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Spain set to smash tourism record for FIFTH year in a row after raking in €77 billion in 2016

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The Alhambra in Granada is one of Spain’s most visited sites

SPAIN is set to break its foreign tourists record for the fifth year in a row.

 

The British favourite has already welcomed 20 million visitors in the first quarter of 2017, an increase of 11.6% over the same period last year, according to the Frontier Tourism Survey from the National Institute of Statistics (INE).

And the number of Brits coming to Spain for their jollies has not only continued, but increased by almost 10%.

Some 4.3 million Britons came to Spain from January to April, up 9.6% from the previous year.

It comes after last year saw foreign tourists spend a mammoth €77 billion in Spain.

Andalucia has already raked in €6 billion from tourism in the first quarter of this year.

The latest figures by BNP Paribas International also highlight the British mania for Spain, with 23% of UK property buyers planning to accelerate their purchases in the country.

 

 

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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