{"id":121580,"date":"2017-10-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/tourism-declining-in-barcelona-in-october\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T12:18:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T10:18:16","slug":"tourism-declining-in-barcelona-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/tourism-declining-in-barcelona-in-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism Declining in Barcelona in October"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The number of tourists visiting Catalonia has decreased by 15% since the beginning of October compared to the same period last year, the local association Exceltur announced.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Transport and hotel bookings through the end of December are down by 20%. The decline could be costly, and if projections through the end of the year are confirmed, losses will exceed EUR 1 billion.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>According to data published by Spain&#8217;s National Statistics Institute, the top tourist destinations in the first half of 2017 were: Catalonia, the Canary Islands, the Balearic Islands, and Andalusia.<\/div>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capital.ro\" data-wplink-url-error=\"true\">Capital<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Why is tourism declining in Catalonia?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tourism in Catalonia has seen a 15% drop in October, with bookings down 20% due to regional instability affecting travel confidence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the projected financial impact of this decline?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If current trends continue through the end of the year, the tourism sector in Catalonia could face losses exceeding 1 billion euros.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which regions were Spain&#8217;s top tourist destinations in early 2017?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the first half of 2017, the most popular destinations were Catalonia, the Canary Islands, the Balearic Islands, and Andalusia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of tourists visiting Catalonia has decreased by 15% since the beginning of October compared to the same period last year, the local association Exceltur announced. Transport and hotel bookings through the end of December are down by 20%. The decline could be costly, and if projections through the end of the year are&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":66929,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2858],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-121580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tourism"],"article_style_override":"","post-style":"","post_via":"","post-top-image":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/turism-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121580"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=121580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}