{"id":69344,"date":"2026-08-11T23:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T23:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/69344\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T23:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T23:19:13","slug":"spain-on-course-for-a-record-summer-43-million-tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/69344\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain on course for a record summer: 43 million tourists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spain.info\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Spain<\/a> is heading for a record tourist summer, with forecasts of receiving 43 million international visitors between June and September, 6% up on 2025. Spending is expected to reach around \u20ac64 billion, up 10%, confirming that visitor spending is growing faster than arrivals and reinforcing the country&#8217;s appeal in an international environment marked by uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p>Turespa\u00f1a\u2019s forecasts also point to greater territorial diversification. The regions traditionally less reliant on tourism are expected to see increases in spending of between 8% and 10%, above the growth forecast in Andalusia, Madrid, Catalonia, the Valencian region, the Balearic Islands and the Canaries, where the rise would be between 5% and 6%. The Government attributes this trend to the process of transforming the model and to policies to deconcentrate flows.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/L_073646_adobestock-160812421.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2361\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Source: Adobe Stock.<\/p>\n<p>Exceltur has also improved its expectations for 2026 and raised tourism GDP growth to 2.7%, after a second quarter that grew by 3.4%. For the summer, companies expect to increase their sales by 3.2%, with a particular boost in transport, leisure and travel agencies. The strength of international and domestic demand, Spain\u2019s image as a safe destination and the holding of major events underpin a scenario of reasonable optimism for the sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spain is heading for a record tourist summer, with forecasts of receiving 43 million international visitors between June&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11830,27221,17,18366],"class_list":["post-69344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-destinations","tag-international-tourism","tag-spain","tag-tourist-spending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}