UK tourists were biggest contributors to the €77 billion spent by holidaymakers in Spain last year

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brits-are-back-in-benidormFOREIGN visitors to Spain spent a whopping €77 billion in the country last year.

The figure is 8.3% higher than 2015.

The average tourist spent €1,023, or €138 per day.

The largest group were by far the Brits, with 16.9 million visiting.

That’s a 12.3% increase on the year before, showing that Brexit has failed to deter Brits from holidaying.

Catalonia was the most popular region, receiving 17 million visitors from January to November, or 3.8% more than in 2015.

The Balearic Islands welcomed 12.9 million visitors and the Canary Islands came third in the rankings with 12 million visitors.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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