Statistics on Foreign Tourism. 2023. Definitive data

The number of foreign tourists who arrived to Catalonia in 2023 increased by 22.4% compared to 2022 and stood at 18.2 million according to the definitive data, that update the provisional data. By country of residence, among the countries from which the majority of tourists came, France, the United Kingdom and the United States registered positive year-over-year variation rates of 9.0%, 23.7% and 37.1%, respectively.

On the other hand, by reason for travelling, leisure trips and trips for other reasons (health, studies, family…) increased by 23.6% and 41.1%, respectively, while business trips decreased by 1.5%. As for the principal type of accommodation, hotels and similar increased by 16.4% and the housings of relatives or friends by 42.1%.