In terms of spending on tourism, July of this year marked €13,853 million, an increase of 16.4 per cent compared to the same month of the previous year and an increase of 16 per cent compared to 2019.

Spain saw a significant resurgence in international tourism during the first half of 2023, with 37.5 million foreign tourists visiting the country, marking a substantial 24% increase compared to the same period in 2022, according to the government’s announcement on Wednesday.

According to Chen, Chinese tourists are returning on such a large scale that the consulates of Spain, France and Germany in China could not cope with the numbers of visa applications.

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) have recorded 300 cases in total of the illness since April this year, many of which have been identified as multi drug-resistant.

Spain works closely with the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) whose headquarters are in Madrid- to develop a framework that makes it possible to objectively measure sustainability in tourism.

Spain expects to receive more tourists in the summer of 2023 than before the COVID-19 pandemic, after international tourist arrivals for April were 1.2% higher than in the same month in 2019.

28 beaches across Majorca, Ibiza, as well as Menorca, will operate as free-smoking areas as part of efforts to tackle the problem of cigarette butts in the sea and send.

As this increased from the 31.1 million who came in 2021, it was still below the record 83.7 million visitors from foreign countries who arrived in 2019 before COVID-19 hit the sector.

In 2020, during the easing of COVID-related restrictions phase, the level of reservations in the passenger’s continents of origin accounted for a notable increase, with nine out of ten reservations made in Spain.

This year, Asia Pacific stands out, with a 163% increase in participating companies; the Middle East, 60%; Africa, 88%; Europe, 42%; and the Americas, 30%.