British
Tourists Spend 17% More Money in Spain
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| Brits love affair with Spain continues to flourish and always will |
The data comes from the National Statistics Institute (INE)
and it shows British tourists in Spain spent around €776 million in November
2016. This was not just an improvement over the figures from last year, but it
also accounted for 18.5% of all the money spent by tourists that month.
The interesting thing is that while there were more British
tourists, the number was only up 12.5%, meaning that Brits are opening their
wallets more with an average spend of €120 per day and €895 per holiday. The
only thing that shrunk was the length of the average stay. Brits went from
staying in Spain for an average of 8 days in the country to an average of 7.5
days.
Overall the Spanish economy received a boost of €4.91billion from tourism spending in November 2016, an increase of 8.3% on 2015.
German tourists pumped €530 million of their own into the country, followed by
Scandinavians with €482 million and the French with €291 million.
In terms of regional spending the most money was spent in
the Canary Islands thanks to the promise of sun and sand in Winter; almost a
third of all spending from tourists in November happened in the Canary Islands.
When analysing all 11 months of 2016 leading to the end of
November, the amount of tourist spending in 2016 was pretty impressive. Expenditure
was up 8.4% over the same period in 2015 or a massive total of €73.1 billion,
of which just over 20% came from British tourists; proving that British
tourists remain a key part of Spanish tourism.
