The Spanish statistical office INE periodically publishes the results of a pilot study looking at mobile phone data. This shows where people have traveled within Spain, but also shows where international travelers have traveled and which countries they are coming from. We took a look at the Dutch and Belgians in the most popular provinces for January (2024).
Consequently facts More than 4.7 million tourists came from Europe and stayed somewhere for 33.3 million nights, with an average length of stay of 7.1 nights. The largest number of tourists came from the UK with just over 798,409. The Brits are followed by the French with 795,906 tourists while 678,467 Germans were recorded.
The top six countries with the largest number of tourists come in fourth place 339,859 Dutch With 2.17 million overnight stays and an average length of stay of 6.4 nights. Being in ninth place 164.345 Belgian With 1.25 million overnight stays and an average length of stay of 7.6 nights.
Counties
If we look at the provinces where most tourists of a certain nationality went, there were some of them Dutch 45,376 to Barcelona, 40,167 to Alicante, 40,113 to Las Palmas (Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura, Lanzarote and La Graciosa), 36,596 to Malaga, 28,527 to Madrid, 23,770 to Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Tenerife, La Gomera, El Hierro, La Palma) and 18 .791 to Valencia and 9.360 to the Balearic Islands (Mallorca, Minorca, Ibiza and Formentera).
If we look at the provinces where most tourists of a certain nationality went, there were some of them Belgians 28.191 to Alicante, 19.471 to Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Tenerife, La Gomera, El Hierro, La Palma), 17.088 to Barcelona, 16.263 to Malaga, 16.025 to Las Palmas (Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura, Lanzarote and La Graciosa), 12.399 to Madrid, 8152 to Girona and 5523 to Valencia.
note: Through other data from the Spanish Statistics Office on the number of foreign travelers to Spain in January (2024), we here As shown, we know that 216,489 Dutch and 155,367 Belgians came to Spain. This is not consistent with data collected by telephone for the same month.
More than 4.7 million foreign tourists in Spain in January
Spain welcomed more than 4.7 million international tourists in January (2024), the highest number ever for the first month of the year with more than 370,000 Dutch and Belgian tourists.
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