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Foreign visitors to the Murcia Region also spent 6.7% more than before the pandemic
The Region of Murcia burst through the bubble of the pandemic last year and regained all of the tourist traffic lost at the height of the health crisis.
New data from the National Institute of Statistics (INE) show that 6.7% more foreign visitors descended on Murcia in 2022 than before the pandemic and that they parted with a whopping 947 million euros, compared to 360 million in 2021.
So strong has the industry’s rebound been that the Region of Murcia far exceeded the Spanish average in terms of length of stay, with the average tourist visiting the area for 12.2 days between January and November. This makes the Region the autonomous community with the longest stay duration overall.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, visitors from the UK have been the biggest spenders in Murcia, forking out 364.5 million euros last year and making up a staggering 38.5% of the total. Britons are followed by tourists from France, who spent 113.9 million euros (12%); the Nordic countries, with 87.8 million euros (9.3%); Belgium, with 75.9 million euros (8%), and Germany, with 61.9 million (6.5%).
On top of spending the most money, UK tourists also accounted for the majority of foreign traffic to the Region during 2022, with 246,618 arrivals (31.7% of the overall figure). France again picks up second place, with 17.7% but the increase in visitors from the Netherlands is a stand-out, jumping up to represent 37.1% of the total last year.
Overall, some 777,116 foreign tourists arrived in the Region of Murcia between January and November last year, a figure 130.2% higher than the same period of 2021.
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