Spain, according to the monthly figures from the Spanish Statistical Agency INE and Frontur received more than 6.3 million international tourists in the month of March 2024. That is 21% more than the foreign holidaymakers who came to Spain in the same month in 2023 and the highest number ever recorded in the third month of one year. The number of Dutch and Belgian tourists has also increased by 11% and 30% respectively compared to the same month in 2023.
There are a total of 6,347,516 international holidaymakers came to Spain. Of these, 1,200,915 came from the United Kingdom, 909,031 from Germany, 791,648 from France, 459,173 from the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) and 338,591 from Italy.
Dutch and Belgians
If we look at the numbers we see that there are 265,551 Dutch people have come to Spain, which is an increase of 10.9% compared to the same month in 2023. There are 201,155 Belgians came to Spain, a large increase of 30.3% compared to the same month in 2023.
So far this year, more Dutch and Belgians came to Spain. According to the INE figures, this is the case 730,563 Dutch people (+16.5%) and 523,358 Belgians (+27.6%). Arrived in 2023 4,094,016 Dutch and 2,740,012 Belgians to Spain, respectively increases of 4% and 9% compared to 2022. In 2023, a total of 85,056,528 international holidaymakers came to Spain. It is expected that both the total and the number of Dutch and Belgians will increase this year.
Most visited regions
Most international tourists or travelers traveled to the Canary Islands (Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, La Graciosa, La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro) in this month with 1,4543,234 tourists, followed by Catalonia with 1,346,429 travelers , Andalusia with 960,232 tourists, Valencia region with 826,970 tourists, Madrid region with 711,554 tourists, the Balearic Islands (Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza and Formentera) with 428,232 tourists and the rest of Spain with 530,866 foreign tourists.
