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Foreign tourist numbers up in Spain over first four months of the year
By h.b. - May 21, 2008 - 8:55 PM
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More than 15 million foreign tourists visited Spain between January and April this year. The number is a 3.3% increase on the same period last year, with more than half of the visitors made up by the British, Germans and French.
Most popular region of Spain was Cataluña with 24.6% of the total, but Andalucía suffered a 2.5% reduction in the number of foreign visitors over the four months.
The numbers come from the FRONTUR survey of tourist movements, dependent on the Ministry for Industry, Tourism, and Trade.
3.9 million British visitors represented 3.7% growth on last year, followed by 2.6 million Germans and 2.1 million French.
There was a 13% increase in the number of Scandinavian visitors and also advances in the numbers coming from Portugal and the United States.