Madrid (EFE).- Spain received 4.1 million foreign tourists in January, slightly exceeding, by 0.2%, the level before the pandemic, whose total spending reached 5,218 million euros, a figure that is 9.2% above that of the same month of 2020.
In year-on-year terms, the volume of international tourists who visited Spain in January represents an increase of 65.8% compared to the same month of the previous year, while their total spending is 71.7% higher than in January 2022, when was 3.040 million.
The United Kingdom is the main issuing country, with 742,212 tourists, 3.3% more than in January 2020 and 103.6% more than the same month last year, who spent 847 million euros, 16% more than before the covid and 90% more than in 2022, according to the surveys of tourist movements at borders (Frontur) and tourist spending (Egatur) published this Friday by the National Institute of Statistics (INE).
