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Foreign tourists. Declared expenditure

Foreign tourists. Declared expenditure Catalonia Value
Total spending (€M) Average expenditure per person (€) Average daily expenditure per person (€)
2023 21,248.2 1,168.6 209.4
2022 16,478.6 1,109.5 187.9
2021 5,523.4 954.3 154.2
2020 3,653.2 943.9 159.6
2019 21,318.8 1,100.3 197.3
2018 20,477.8 1,066.8 185.2
2017 19,224.1 1,005.5 168.7
2016 17,466.8 962.9 162.0
Source: Idescat, based on data of the INE's Tourist Movement on Borders Survey and Tourist Expenditure Survey.
Notes:
It considers expenditure information of trips of foreign tourists whose main destination is Catalonia.
Rates of variation for 2016 are chained rates provided by the INE.
Starting in February 2016, Idescat has been publishing, on a yearly basis, information on declared expenditure of foreign tourists whose main destination is Catalonia. Before said date, all information was referred to foreign tourists who visited Catalonia as either their main or secondary destination.
Between 14 March and 21 June 2020, it is in force the Royal Decree 463/2020, of 14 March, which declares the state of alarm for the management of the health crisis situation caused by Covid-19.
Foreign tourists. Declared expenditure Spain Value
Total spending (€M) Average expenditure per person (€) Average daily expenditure per person (€)
2023 108,789.4 1,277.3 177.0
2022 87,138.2 1,216.0 162.0
2021 34,903.4 1,119.4 137.0
2020 19,786.8 1,043.7 133.0
2019 91,912.0 1,108.7 154.0
2018 89,750.8 1,083.8 146.0
2017 87,003.9 1,062.7 137.0
2016 77,415.5 1,027.9 130.0
Source: INE. Tourist Expenditure Survey.
Note: Between 14 March and 21 June 2020, it is in force the Royal Decree 463/2020, of 14 March, which declares the state of alarm for the management of the health crisis situation caused by Covid-19.

Last update: March 13, 2024.

Methodological note

Foreign Tourism Expenditure in Catalonia is a data exploitation process carried out 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 know, on a monthly basis, the total expenditure, the average expenditure per person and the average daily expenditure per person of foreign tourists whose final destination is Catalonia.

Said declared expenditure includes transportation, accommodation, restaurants, foodstuff, activities and other expenses.

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 that the data will not be entirely comparable to previous series.

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

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