20 May, 2025 @ 11:16
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British tourists to Spain accounted for one in five in April as tourism boom continues

A FIFTH of visitors to Spain this April were Brits as the United Kingdom continues to dominate the tourism boom. 

Brits represented 21.1% of visitors to Spain in April 2025, accounting for around two million tourists.

This 8.4% increase compared to the same month last year further cements Spain’s popularity with Brits. 

The most popular destinations for UK visitors were the Canary Islands (26.1%), the Balearic Islands (16.6%), Andalucia (16.6%) and Valencia (16.4%). 

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Canary Islands
POPULAR: The Canary Islands are one of Spain’s top tourism destinations.

Behind the UK was Germany, with 1.4 million visitors representing 14.3% of the total and a 13.6% increase compared to April 2024.

The Balearic Islands was by far their preferred destination, with 36.7% of German visitors choosing the archipelago for their holidays. 

Spain is also popular with Italian tourists, who represented 9.7% of April’s total alongside Dutch visitors, who made up 5%.

Some 9.7 million tourists visited Spain in April, 9.5% more than the same month last year. 

This continues an upward trend, with 30.8 million tourists coming to the country between January and April, 7.4% more than the same period of 2024. 

The most popular destinations for an April holiday in Spain were Madrid and Catalunya, receiving 58.2% of the country’s tourists.

However, the Balearic Islands experienced the most tourism growth in spring, with a 12.3% increase compared to 2024.

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Yzabelle Bostyn

Yzabelle Bostyn is an NCTJ trained journalist who started her journalistic career at the Olive Press in 2023.
Before moving to Spain, she studied for a BA in English Literature and Hispanic Studies at the University of Sheffield.
After graduating she moved to the university’s journalism department, one of the best in the UK.
Throughout the past few years, she has taken on many roles including social media marketing, copywriting and radio presenting.
She then took a year out to travel Latin America, scaling volcanoes in Guatemala and swimming with sharks in Belize.
Then, she came to the Olive Press last year where she has honed her travel writing skills and reported on many fantastic experiences such as the Al Andalus luxury train.
She has also undertaken many investigations, looking into complex issues like Spain’s rental crisis and rising cancer rates.
Always willing to help, she has exposed many frauds and scams, working alongside victims to achieve justice.
She is most proud of her work on Nolotil, a drug linked to the deaths of many Brits in Spain.
A campaign launched by Yzabelle has received considerable support and her coverage has been by the UK and Spanish media alike.
Her writing has featured on many UK news outlets from the Sun to the Mail Online, who contracted her to report for them in Tenerife on growing tourism issues.
Recently, she has appeared on Times Radio covering deadly flooding in Valencia.

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