UK tourism in the Balearics rises again as the annual record for the total number of tourists is bro…

The latest figures from the National Statistics Institute’s Frontur report indicate that there were 409,279 UK tourists in October, a year-on-year increase of 2.59%. There were 1,599,914 foreign tourists, a rise of 8.35%. The total number of tourists, to include Spanish, was 1,816,424. Spanish tourism, which had also experienced falls over the summer, was up 2.25% to 216,510.

The largest foreign market, as ever, was Germany. A 10.71% increase to 588,416 tourists came after three months when the German market performed strongly, with an average monthly increase in excess of ten per cent. Over the same period,…