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Foreign tourists. By country of residence

Foreign tourists. By country of residence Catalonia. September, 2024 (p)
Year-over-year variation
Value % over total Absolute % month % accumulated
Total 2,033.3 100.0 214.6 11.8 10.0
Germany 167.0 8.2 -5.4 -3.1 8.2
Belgium 52.0 2.6 7.0 15.7 20.8
France 313.7 15.4 21.4 7.3 1.7
Ireland 55.1 2.7 4.4 8.7 14.3
Italy 132.2 6.5 38.5 41.1 24.4
Netherlands 89.8 4.4 12.2 15.7 3.1
Nordic countries 52.0 2.6 -22.8 -30.5 0.1
Portugal 30.2 1.5 6.0 25.0 -5.9
United Kingdom 230.3 11.3 13.1 6.0 4.7
Russia 13.5 (*) Estimate with high variability 0.7 -4.2 (*) Estimate with high variability -23.7 (*) Estimate with high variability 6.1 (*) Estimate with high variability
Switzerland 50.8 2.5 18.8 58.9 32.0
Rest of Europe 204.6 10.1 -6.9 -3.3 3.2
United States 256.6 12.6 69.0 36.7 20.5
Rest of America 138.4 6.8 26.3 23.5 9.2
Rest of the world 247.1 12.2 37.2 17.7 25.0
Units: Thousands.
Source: Idescat, based on data of the INE's Tourist Movement on Borders Survey and Tourist Expenditure Survey.
(p) Provisional data.
(*) Estimate with high variability.
Foreign tourists. By country of residence Spain. September, 2024 (p)
Year-over-year variation
Value % over total Absolute % month % accumulated
Total 9,595.1 100.0 799.7 9.1 10.9
Germany 1,309.4 13.6 14.4 1.1 8.0
Belgium 315.6 3.3 35.1 12.5 15.3
France 1,095.8 11.4 136.9 14.3 10.5
Ireland 296.2 3.1 29.7 11.2 12.8
Italy 505.4 5.3 74.4 17.3 12.5
Netherlands 496.9 5.2 23.9 5.1 12.3
Nordic countries 438.9 4.6 33.6 8.3 8.2
Portugal 303.2 3.2 21.4 7.6 6.4
United Kingdom 2,046.4 21.3 102.9 5.3 7.5
Russia .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Switzerland 210.7 2.2 -0.1 -0.1 8.6
Rest of Europe 956.8 10.0 165.1 20.9 16.6
United States 442.3 4.6 5.3 1.2 12.5
Rest of America 558.3 5.8 92.0 19.7 10.4
Rest of the world 619.2 6.5 64.9 11.7 21.1
Units: Thousands.
Source: INE. Tourist Movement on Borders Survey.
(p) Provisional data.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

Last update: October 31, 2024. Next update: December 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.