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Foreign tourists. By country of residence

Foreign tourists. By country of residence Catalonia. December, 2016
Year-over-year variation
Value % over total Absolute % month % accumulated
Total 956.5 100.0 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 7.5 4.4
Germany 59.9 6.3 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 15.8 10.7
Belgium 14.1 1.5 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 16.9 -17.0
France 281.0 29.4 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 5.9 -3.4
Ireland 10.3 (*) Estimate with high variability 1.1 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 0.8 (*) Estimate with high variability 54.2 (*) Estimate with high variability
Italy 87.6 9.2 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available -17.1 -1.9
Netherlands 21.0 2.2 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available -13.9 -7.8
Nordic countries 36.1 3.8 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 17.9 10.4
Portugal 6.9 (*) Estimate with high variability 0.7 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available -47.9 (*) Estimate with high variability 53.2 (*) Estimate with high variability
United Kingdom 70.4 7.4 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 2.3 7.8
Russia 17.4 1.8 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available -12.4 3.9
Switzerland 22.0 2.3 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available -28.2 -23.8
Rest of Europe 112.9 11.8 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 44.4 10.6
United States 48.6 5.1 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 52.3 18.4
Rest of America 49.3 5.2 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available -17.5 18.4
Rest of the world 118.9 12.4 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 35.9 11.8
Units: Thousands.
Source: Idescat, based on data of the INE's Tourist Movement on Borders Survey and Tourist Expenditure Survey.
Notes:
It considers information of trips of foreign tourists whose main destination is Catalonia.
Rates of variation for 2016 are chained rates provided by the INE.
(*) Estimate with high variability.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.
Foreign tourists. By country of residence Spain. December, 2016
Year-over-year variation
Value % over total Absolute % month % accumulated
Total 3,990.4 100.0 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 13.6 10.5
Germany 456.1 11.4 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 13.7 6.9
Belgium 102.7 2.6 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available -0.9 2.7
France 608.0 15.2 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 7.2 6.8
Ireland 76.9 1.9 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 29.1 23.2
Italy 262.8 6.6 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 9.5 5.3
Netherlands 140.4 3.5 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 4.4 9.2
Nordic countries 365.6 9.2 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 7.7 11.0
Portugal 121.7 3.1 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 5.6 15.9
United Kingdom 880.7 22.1 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 16.2 12.3
Russia 45.1 1.1 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 10.7 1.8
Switzerland 91.7 2.3 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 12.7 7.5
Rest of Europe 283.4 7.1 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 23.8 17.4
United States 116.1 2.9 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 25.7 7.9
Rest of America 169.9 4.3 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 33.9 24.2
Rest of the world 269.2 6.7 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 20.3 15.5
Units: Thousands.
Source: INE. Tourist Movement on Borders Survey.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

Last update: January 31, 2017. Revised series on April 2, 2024. Next update: May 3, 2024 Calendari

Methodological note

Foreign Tourism in Catalonia involves data processed by Idescat based on the Survey of Tourist Movement on Borders (Frontur) and Survey of Tourist Expenditure (Egatur) from the INE.

Its goal is to measure, on a monthly basis, the number of visitors living abroad, in accordance with access routes and type of visitor, and reveal the main attributes of said trips.

This statistic encompasses the trips taken by international tourists and excursionistsaccording to the country where they normally reside(that is, the trips taken by travellers whose usual country of residence is outside Spain, regardless of their nationality).

Tourists are those people who travel to a main destination outside their usual environment, involving at least one overnight stay, for a duration of less than one year and when the main reason for the visit (including business, leisure and other personal reasons) is not connected with a job in a company established in the location visited.

Excursionists are those people who travel to a main destination outside their usual environment, involving no overnight stay. Said visits must meet the following characteristics:

  • The point of departure must be the person's usual environment.
  • The visit cannot be part of the person's daily routine.
  • It must have a duration of at least three hours.
  • Its frequency must be less than once per week.

Up until the third quarter of 2015, the Spanish Institute of Tourism was in charge of producing the Survey of Tourist Movement on Borders (Frontur) and the Survey of Tourist Expenditure (Egatur). Starting in the last quarter of 2015, the body in charge of said operations is the INE. Said shift of responsibilities also entailed a change in the design and methodology of the surveys, which means the data will not be entirely comparable to previous series.

You can get more information about these statistics in the methodology.