Spain lost 65 million foreign tourists in 2020
Spain lost 65 million foreign tourists in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Spanish Bureau of Statistics (INE) said in a tourism report.
The southern European country, which was still the second most visited country in the world in 2019, received 18.9 million tourists last year, which is a 77.3 percent year-over-year decline. So few visitors last arrived in Spain in 1969.
In terms of revenue, last year’s loss exceeds 72 billion euros. 19.7 billion euros revenue from tourism is 78.5 percent less than last year. (MTI)
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