Spain tourism heading for record year
Thursday, July 23, 2015 @ 5:29 PM
Spain is heading for record year for tourism with an unparalleled 29.2 million foreign tourists visiting the country in the first half of the year.
The 2015 figures represent a 4.2% increase on the same period last year and equate to some 1.2 million more tourists than in the first six months of 2014.
These figures, which illustrate the best first-six-months figures on record, coupled with the "highly positive" outlook for the summer prompted Spain's Minister for Industry, Energy and Tourism, José Manuel Soria, to say that there would "very probably" be more record-breaking figures by the end of the year.
The minister pointed out that holiday accommodation occupation rates for the summer months were at 90% in many places along the coast, at 70% in rural areas and 80% in the state-run network of Paradores.
In June alone, almost 6.7 million foreign tourists visited Spain, 1.4% more than in 2014 and surpassing all previous records for the month of June.
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