Business
foreign visitors
Business
Record foreign tourist spending in Catalonia in first quarter of 2015; 12.6% increase
Politics
Catalan Government wants to have a network of “about 50 delegations” abroad in “a few years”
Business
16.7 million foreign tourists visited Catalonia in 2014, a new high and an increase of 7.2%
Business
Catalonia continues to lead foreign tourism, with a 7.5% increase in August
Society
Tourism in Catalonia up by 2.3% in May
In the first five months of 2014, the number of foreign visitors increased by 8% to almost 5.5 million people. Catalonia is the autonomous community in Spain that attracts the most tourists, one in four of all foreign visitors to Spain. This is according to the latest figures from the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism. The strongest increases in visitors came from the Netherlands, Germany, Italy and Asia, although the UK, Germany and France are still the three countries that sent more tourists to Catalonia.