Spain, according to Monthly numbers The Spanish statistics office INE and Frontur received more than 6.3 million international tourists in March 2024. This is 21% more than the foreign holidaymakers who came to Spain in the same month of 2023 and is the highest number ever recorded in a third quarter month of one year. The number of Dutch and Belgian tourists also increased by 11% and 30%, respectively, compared to the same month in 2023.
There are a total of 6,347,516 international holidaymakers He came to Spain. Of these, 1,200,915 came from the United Kingdom, 909,031 from Germany, 791,648 from France, 459,173 from the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) and 338,591 from Italy.
The Dutch and the Belgians
If we look at the numbers we see that there is 265,551 Dutch Their arrival to Spain, which represents an increase of 10.9% compared to the same month in 2023. There 201,155 Belgians To Spain, a significant increase of 30.3% compared to the same month in 2023.
So far this year, more Dutch and Belgians have come to Spain. According to figures from the National Institute of Statistics, this is the case 730,563 Dutch (+16.5%) and 523.358 Belgian (+27.6%). Arrived in 2023 4,094,016 Dutch and 2,740,012 Belgians to Spain, an increase of 4% and 9% respectively compared to 2022. In 2023, a total of 85,056,528 international holidaymakers came to Spain. The total number of Dutch and Belgians is expected to increase this year.
Most visited areas
The most tourists or international travelers traveled to the Canary Islands (Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, La Graciosa, La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro) this month with 1,4543,234 tourists, followed by Catalonia with 1,346,429 travellers. Andalusia with 960,232 tourists, the Valencia region with 826,970 tourists, the Madrid region with 711,554 tourists, the Balearic Islands (Mallorca, Minorca, Ibiza and Formentera) with 428,232 tourists, and the rest of Spain with 530,866 foreign tourists.
