14-12-2023
Which is the more visited destinations in Christmas? Madrid is the destination par excellence, especially thanks to domestic tourism. The Canary Islands are the preferred destination for international tourists during the Christmas season, with municipalities that concentrate a large number of arrivals. Together, Andalusia and Catalonia are the autonomous regions with the most tourists due to strong internal tourism in both regions. What is the favorite destination for Christmas in Spain? INE statistics give us clues to identify the most ...
07-09-2023
International tourists who travel to Spain for studies: where they go, where they come from and when they travel The average spending per trip for this sort of tourist is more than four times the general rate, due to an average stay of almost 50 days. Catalonia, Andalusia and the Region of Valencia are the regions that receive the most "student tourists": approximately one out of every five arriving in Spain. Study abroad trips are those with the longest average ...
16-08-2023
Crime Data: Security and Transparency of Tourist Destinations in Spain Spain is a safe country, as can be seen from the data collected by law enforcement agencies and compared with Eurostat figures. You can consult Dataestur's "Citizen Safety" scorecard with data from the Crime Statistics System and Eurostat. Spain outperforms most countries in many categories of European safety statistics. For example, it has one of the lowest rates of theft, which is relevant to the tourist environment. This is without ...
19-07-2023
Keys for Data Exchange in Tourism: the Role of Data Spaces Data spaces are environments for the voluntary and secure exchange of data. They will be the basis for sharing data resulting from the interaction between tourist, destination and tourism company. Segittur and Turium have presented the report "Spain and the challenge of tourism data spaces", which delves into the value of data spaces for data providers and destination managers. Tourism statistics are facing an emerging scenario in which the ...
28-06-2023
Cultural Tourism Boosting the Recovery of the Sector In 2022, the movement of national tourists was similar to the figures seen in 2019. Cultural tourism represented 11% of all journeys made. The figures for visitors and spending confirm that it was the year of the sector's recovery. Destinations such as Asturias, Murcia or the Balearic Islands exceeded the number of visitors seen in 2019, with increases of up to 74%. Santiago de Compostela also recorded very positive data, acting as ...
14-06-2023
Analysis of tourist flows last summer in tourist hotspots The Balearic Islands are the main summer tourist destination in Spain according to 2022 data, based on the total number of tourists, irrespective of their domestic or international origin. They are followed by Madrid and Barcelona, which continue to be top summer destinations, with their provinces attracting more than five million tourists. The season of sun and beaches places a number of Mediterranean provinces among the most visited: Alicante, Malaga and ...
20-04-2023
Analysis based on the 2022 data from the tourist occupancy survey (campsites) by the National Statistics Institute (INE) Guests in campsites in Spain are mainly domestic tourists. Their trips take place primarily between April and September, albeit with much more intensity in the months of July and August (these two months account for more than 45% of the overnight stays). Catalonia is the main destination, with figures that almost triple the number of travellers to the second autonomous region (Andalusia) ...
18-04-2023
Analysis based on the 2022 data from the tourist occupancy survey (accommodation in rural tourism) by the National Statistics Institute (INE) Travellers who typically choose rural accommodation are Spanish tourists who travel mainly between April and September (around 70% of the overnight stays, of which half are in the months of July and August). Their main destination is Castile and Leon and their average stay is between 2 and 3 nights (except in July and August, between 3 and 4 ...