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Tourism in Spain is a major contributor to national economic life, with foreign and domestic tourism contributing to about 12.4% of Spain's GDP (in 2019). [1] Ever since the 1960s and 1970s, the country has been a popular destination for summer holidays, especially with large numbers of tourists from the United Kingdom , Ireland , France ...
Tourism to Spain is up despite mass protests this year in Mallorca and Barcelona, according to data from the Spanish government.
The Department of Information and Tourism was created by a Decree-Law of 19 July 1951. [4] The ministry assumed the competences over media and entertainment (press, cinematography and theater and broadcasting) that until then were attributed to the Undersecretariat of Popular Education, whose head was Manuel Arburúa de la Miyar, while those of tourism had been attributed to the Directorate ...
Chris McLennan (born 18 January) is an international travel photographer who achieved worldwide recognition following the release of his "Car-L meets the lions" video. The video became a viral hit with over 7 million YouTube views and was featured in national publications and on TV news stations around the globe.
Jaume Bauzà, tourism minister for the Balearics, said that they wanted to discourage anti-tourism, or "tourism-phobia", and that stopping illegal methods of procuring tourism would go a long way in solving this and overtourism. [12] In Barcelona, political measures have been taken to combat the negative effects of overtourism.
Spain expects tourism to bounce back in the spring after a slowdown caused by the Omicron variant of COVID-19 and for overall visitor numbers this year to be more than two-thirds of record 2019 ...
The Ministry of Industry and Tourism (MINCOTUR) is the department of the Government of Spain responsible for the proposal and execution of the government policy on industry, trade and tourism, including among its competences the industrial development and of the SMEs, the promotion and defense of the industrial property, as well as the politics of tourism and the rest of competences and ...
The Instituto de Turismo de España – Turespaña (Tourism Institute of Spain) is the official agency of the Government of Spain responsible for the marketing of the country as a tourist destination throughout the world. It depends on the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism through the Secretary of State for Tourism.