Analysis of tourism by mobile position

The National Statistics Institute carries out a series of projects that are in some way innovative, whether through their information sources, statistical methods, study scope or way of disseminating the results. The presented contents are considered to be experimental because they have not yet reached sufficient maturity in terms of the reliability, stability or quality of data, as to be included in official statistics.

The following dashboard provides data from the experimental study whose main objective is to know in an aggregated way, through mobile phone signals, via active and passive events captured by telephone antennas, to determine the following:

1.Origin and country/countries visited by Spanish tourists on their trips abroad.

2.The origin of foreign tourists who visit the various autonomous communities, provinces and municipalities.

3.The origin and destination of domestic tourists who visit the various autonomous communities, provinces and municipalities.

INFORMATION: 

• Since January 2026, no inbound tourism data has been published in the INE's experimental statistics. For more information, please read the information note published by the INE.

  Due to the integration of mobile network data from mobile phone operators into the process of compiling the results of the Tourist Movements at Borders (FRONTUR), the experimental statistics "Measurement of tourism using mobile phones: Inbound Tourism" provides data up to and including the reference month of December 2025. Once the integration process is complete, municipal results will be available in the FRONTUR section of the INE website, although they will not be comparable to those published in the experimental statistic. This only affects inbound tourism data. The measurement of tourism from mobile phones for outbound and domestic tourism will continue to provide monthly results on a regular basis.

• United Kingdom as country of origin, in inbound tourism, or country of destination, in outbound tourism, includes Gibraltar.
• There is data from countries and municipalities protected by statistical secrecy that is not shown or included in the subtotals. For this reason, there may be small differences with the data published by the INE for totals and subtotals.