Madrid (TAN): A total of 9.9 million tourists visited Spain in July, a 1.3% fall from July 2018, reveals data from the country’s National Statistics Institute, El Pais reported.
This is the second year in a row that the tourist arrival numbers have fallen in July. The main reason for this decline is the slump in visitor numbers from UK and Germany, Spain’s two main markets.
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However, the international visitors spent EUR 11.98 billion (USD 13.09 billion) in Spain, up 2% from July last year.
Spain received 133,199 tourists in July this year, fewer than the year before (-1.3%) and 606,391 fewer than in July 2017, which was the best month of July on record, the report added.
