Spain’s income from tourism activity surged in 2022, surpassing levels last seen before the Covid-19 pandemic, the Exceltur tourism association said on Tuesday.
The association, an ‘Alliance for Excellency in Tourism’ formed by the chairmen of 33 leading Spanish tourist groups, said in a report that last year’s tourism earnings reached an estimated €159 billion, an increase of 1.4% on 2019, beating expectations notably in the second half, marking ‘the full recovery of tourism activity in Spain’.
Although the figures showed the tourism sector accounted for 12.2% of the Spanish economy last year, it remained slightly lower than the 12.6% registered in 2019.
‘In contrast to the many predictions to the contrary, which were proved wrong during the second half, 2022 marked the full recovery of tourism activity in Spain,’ it said in a statement.
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