{"id":124486,"date":"2015-07-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/spain-record-number-of-tourists-in-h1\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T21:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T19:57:12","slug":"spain-record-number-of-tourists-in-h1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/spain-record-number-of-tourists-in-h1\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain: Record Number of Tourists in H1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In the first six months of this year, Spain was visited by a record number of 29.2 million foreign tourists, 4.2% more than in the same period of 2014, the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Energy, and Tourism announced.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In June alone, Spain was visited by 6.7 million foreign tourists, 1.4% more than in June 2014, setting a new historical record for this month.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The majority of tourists were from the United Kingdom, specifically 6.7 million, an increase of 2.6%, followed by Germans, with 4.7 million (+1.6%), and French, with 4.6 million visitors (+7.5%).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The largest percentage increases were recorded, however, in the case of tourists from the USA, an advance of 15.7% year-on-year to 661,612 tourists, followed by Swiss tourists, an increase of 9.7% to 755,950 tourists, and Belgian tourists, an increase of 7.8% to 974,398 tourists.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In contrast, the number of Russian tourists who visited Spain decreased by 35.7% in the first half of the year, to 361,000, due to the collapse of the ruble.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>25.2% of tourists chose Catalonia as their holiday destination, followed by the Canary Islands, the Balearic Islands, and Andalusia.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In 2014, Spain recorded a new record for the number of foreign tourists, nearly 65 million, 7.1% more than in 2013.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economica.net\" data-wplink-url-error=\"true\">Economica<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h3>\n<p><strong>How many foreign tourists visited Spain in the first half of the year?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Spain welcomed a record 29.2 million foreign tourists in the first six months, a 4.2% increase compared to the previous year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which country had the highest growth in tourist numbers to Spain?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The United States saw the highest percentage growth, with a 15.7% increase in tourists visiting Spain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the most popular holiday destination in Spain for foreigners?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Catalonia is the top destination, attracting 25.2% of all foreign tourists visiting the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first six months of this year, Spain was visited by a record number of 29.2 million foreign tourists, 4.2% more than in the same period of 2014, the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Energy, and Tourism announced. In June alone, Spain was visited by 6.7 million foreign tourists, 1.4% more than in June 2014,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":65518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2858],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-124486","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\/124486","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=124486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124486"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=124486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}