Madrid, June 27 (EFE).- In view of the data for the first quarter of the year, the majority of Spaniards from all communities, except the Balearic Islands, travel less than before the pandemic, but when they do they lengthen the stay and, above all, they spend much more.
The Resident Tourism Survey published this Tuesday by the National Statistics Institute (INE) reveals that between January and March the group of Spanish citizens residing in the Balearic Islands made 10.57% more trips than in the same period of 2019 , while, for example, the Basques traveled 33.51% less, the Castilian-La Mancha 27.78% less and the Navarrese 27.03% less.
Only Extremadurans (-2.78%), Aragonese (-5.38%), Valencians (-6.54%) and Madrid (-6.91%) came close to the figures of the last first quarter prior to the arrival of the covid.
However, the average duration of the trips has grown in ten communities, up to 46.15% in the case of the Cantabrians or 26.39% and 23.89% in the case of the Balearic and Canary Islands, respectively, while it has decreased more in the case of the Aragonese (-13.13%) and the Castilian-La Mancha (-11.44%).
The longest trips in the first quarter were made by Spaniards residing in the Balearic Islands (5.70 days on average), Cantabria (3.99 days), the Canary Islands (3.89) and Madrid (3.69) and the shortest by from Aragón (2.58 days), La Rioja (2.70) and Murcia (2.81 days).
Regarding the average expenditure per person on trips, in addition to Ceuta, where it has increased by 70.26% in four years -in contrast, in Melilla it has fallen by 6.14%-, it has increased more among Asturians ( 41.41%), Basques (39.60%) and Valencians (39.06%) and less among the Balearic Islands (7.70%), Madrid (10.72%) and La Rioja (13.84%).
Translated into money, these increases are equivalent to 25.12 euros per day more in spending for Basque travelers, 22.81 for Valencians, 22.79 for Asturians and 20.12 for Canarians.
In any case, the Spaniards who live in the Canary Islands are the ones who spend the most on their trips according to the figures from January to March (90.27 euros), ahead of the Basques (88.55 euros), Catalans (88.33 ) and Murcians (86.89 euros), far from the average expenditure per traveler from Extremadura (58.18 euros), Aragonese (66.67 euros) and Castilian-La Mancha (71.45 euros).