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Visitors from the UK in January rose by 1.46% compared to last year, reclaiming their position at the head of the pack
According to data released today by Spain’s National Statistics Institute (INE), 2.4 million international tourists entered Spain in January 2022, six times more than a year earlier but still almost two million below January 2020, before the pandemic.
Of these 2,486,000 foreign tourists who visited Spain in the first month of this year, 363,150 were from Great Britain, which is an increase of 1.46% from the same month last year and means that Brits reclaim spot at the top after losing out to French tourists in 2021.
Nearly a third of those foreign travellers to Spain in January went to the Canary Islands (30.6%), while Catalonia and Andalucía were the second and third favourite destinations with 18.6% and 13% of tourists landing there, respectively.
However, these figures are still far from pre-pandemic levels, and serve to underline that while the Spanish tourism industry is fast recovering thanks to measures such as an announcement earlier this week that Spain would accept travellers from the UK and other non-EU who have recently recovered from Covid and those with any WHO-approved jabs, including those developed in China and India, there are still fears and reservations on the part of foreign tourists to fly to Spain on holiday while we are still in the middle of the pandemic.
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