1 Dec, 2017 @ 15:59
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BRIT BOOM: Almost one in three Brits have visited Spain so far this year as Andalucia tourism figures soar above 10 MILLION

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THING OF THE PAST? Benalmadena beach packed with British tourists (CREDIT: Olive Press)
HOTSPOT: Andalucia

ANDALUCIA has seen a 10% rise in foreign tourists in the first ten months of this year compared to the same period in 2016.

Some 10,451,449 extranjeros visited the holiday hotspot between January and October, according to the National Institute of Statistics (INE).

In October alone, a huge 1,122,329 international tourists visited the region, 2.6% more than last year.

SIZZLING: Benalmadena beach this summer

Andalucia is now the fourth most popular destination, behind Catalunya, the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands.

British tourists topped the list of visitors, accounting for 26.5% of the total.

On a national level, Spain received more than 73.4 million foreign tourists in the first 10 months of the year, an increase of 9.2%.

In October, 7.3 million international tourists visited the country, 1.8% more than in the same month of the previous year.

The number of Brits coming to Spain increased by 7.1% to more than 17 million Brits, almost one third of the whole population.

It was followed by Germany, which experienced a growth of 5.9%, to 10.8 million visitors, and France, with more than 10.1 million international tourists, representing an increase of 0.4%.

Catalonia was the autonomous community that received the most international tourists last October, with 1.5 million visitors, despite suffering a fall of 4.7% in the arrival of foreign tourists during the tenth month of the year, thanks to the referendum and ensuing political crisis.

 

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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