Spain received the visit of 31.1 million international tourists in 2021which is 64.4% more than in 2020, a black year for the tourism sector due to the irruption of Covid, according to data published this Wednesday by the National Institute of Statistics (INE).
Despite this strong rebound, the number of tourists registered in 2021 is 62.7% lower than in 2019, before the pandemic.
The expenditure made by foreign tourists who visited Spain last year also skyrocketed compared to 2020, in this case 76%, reaching 34,816 million euros.
However, compared to 2019, the expenditure made by foreign tourists in 2021 was 62.1% lower.
In the last month of last year, Spain received the visit of 2.9 million international touristsmore than four times more than in the same month of 2020. These tourists spent 3,542 million euros, which means multiplying the spending of December 2020 by more than five.