SPAIN set an all-time new record in 2023 for foreign tourists, logging 85.1 million visitors who spent over €108 billion.
Arrivals were 1.6 million up on the pre-pandemic year of 2019, and 18.7% higher than in 2022.
Travellers from the United Kingdom totalled 17.3 million people, still slightly below the 18 million recorded five years ago.
That figure is expected to rise this year with a significant rise in flights planned between the UK and Spain.
France stood on 11.8 million arrivals to overhaul Germany- who are traditionally second- with 10.8 million.
It is possible that Spain could surpass France for the first time in foreign visitor numbers to become a world leader, with the French government yet to publish its figures which are expected to be between 79 and 85 million visitors.
The data from the National Institute of Statistics (INE), shows that foreign expenditure in 2023…
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