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Tourism to Spain is up despite mass protests this year in Mallorca and Barcelona, according to data from the Spanish government.
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.
Tourism in Spain is a major contributor to national economic life, with foreign and domestic tourism contributing to 12.3% of Spain's GDP (in 2023). [1] Since 1959, the tourism industry has become one of the key sectors of the Spanish economy. [ 2 ]
Health effects: Tourism also has positive and negative health outcomes for local people. [1] The short-term negative impacts of tourism on residents' health are related to the density of tourist arrivals, the risk of disease transmission, road accidents, higher crime levels, as well as traffic congestion, crowding, and other stressful factors. [2]
“The growth of the tourism industry has a positive effect on the country’s economy,” the spokesperson for the Ministry of Culture said. ... Spain and the Netherlands, among other countries ...
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 ...
Crowds at the Trevi Fountain in Rome. Overtourism is congestion or overcrowding from an excess of tourists, resulting in conflicts with locals.The World Tourism Organization defines overtourism as "the impact of tourism on a destination, or parts thereof, that excessively influences perceived quality of life of citizens and/or quality of visitor experiences in a negative way".
By nationalities that visit the Canary Islands, the destinations preferred by the British are Tenerife and Lanzarote, capturing 46.7% and 25% of their arrivals respectively; the Germans are distributed in a balanced way between Fuerteventura (29.8%), Gran Canaria (28.9%) and Tenerife (26.1%); Nordic people mostly choose Gran Canaria (58.7%) and Spaniards Tenerife (46%).