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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] 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 , Germany ...
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 ...
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.
Tourism to Spain is up despite mass protests this year in Mallorca and Barcelona, according to data from the Spanish government.
The rapid growth of the tourism industry has led to some locals protesting the effects of mass tourism on the island. [45] [46] [47] Mallorca has been jokingly referred to as the 17th Federal State of Germany, due to the high number of German tourists, [48] [49] although people from the island reject this label and deem it "an insult". [50]
On Friday, about 1,000 protesters took part in a demonstration against mass tourism in Ibiza, one of the most popular Balearic Islands. "We want a limit on new tourist places and a ban on more ...
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%).
On a recent episode of Influencers with Yahoo Finance’s Editor-In-Chief, Andy Serwer, Sandals Resorts Executive Chairman Adam Stewart explained how COVID-19 and its effects on the economy helped ...