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than 88.5 million international travellers visited Spain in the first eleven
months of the year 2024, 10.7% more than in the same period last year.
Tourist
spending in November was €7.709 billion, 16% more than in the same month of
2023, and arrivals also grew by 10.3% to over 5.6 million.
In
November, each visitor spent an average of €1,361, 5.2% more than in 2023, and
the expenditure per day and traveller also increased by 2.4%, reaching €178.
A
sharp increase - of 40.9% in tourist arrivals and 35.5% in expenditure - in the
group of communities not part of the six considered to be major destinations,
which demonstrates the effectiveness of the ministry's policies of
deconcentration of tourism.
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