Foreign tourism to Spain surges in January

Spain

Spain received almost 2.5 million foreign tourists in January, a more than fourfold rise from the same month a year ago but still 40% below the number that came in January 2020 before the pandemic hit, official statistics showed on Wednesday.

Total expenditure by foreign tourists rose to 3.03 billion euros ($3.36 billion) compared with 562 million euros a year ago and 4.78 billion euros in January 2020, the National Statistics Institute (INE) data showed. ($1 = 0.9016 euros) (Reporting by Nathan Allen and Christina Thykjaer; Editing by Alison Williams)

Source: Reuters