International visitor numbers for first four months of the year up 13% on 2015

As reports from various sources report a rise in figures from last year already.

And the latest report from the National Statistics Institute has revealed that the number of international tourists that have visited Spain this year has increased 13% for the first four months of 2016.

Between January and the end of April, a total of 18.1 million visitors have holidayed in this country, with almost 6.1 million tourists in April alone, an increase of 11.3% from April 2015.

And, during March and April this year more than 10.9 million visitors arrived in Spain; an increase of 13.4% from the same months last year, which coincided with the celebration of the Easter holidays.

The majority of visitors hailed from the UK, with 4,036,510 tourists, 19.4% more than for the same period (Jan – April) last year.

The next highest-emitting countries were France (2,675,038 visitors) and Germany (2,611,547 visitors). Tourist numbers from these two countries went up 9.5% and 6.7% from last year respectively.

Regarding Spain’s autonomous regions, those that received the greatest number of international tourists during the first four months of the year were the Canary Islands (+11.3%), Cataluña (+6.2%) and Andalucía (+20.7%), which all received many more visitors than for the same period of last year.

And for the month of April, the most popular destination was Cataluña, with 24.3% of the total, followed by the Canary Islands (17.5% of the total) and Andalucía (16.4%).

Each of these three regions received more than 1 million visitors than they did in April 2015.

Source: www.elmundo.es