Spain received last year to nearly 65 million tourists

USPA NEWS - Spain received last year to nearly 65 million tourists, a record that represents a 7.1% increase on 2013. UK, France and Germany are the three countries from which the largest number of tourists, according Spanish Government.

In 2014 came to Spain 64,995,275 foreign tourists, representing more than 4.3 million a year earlier. Fifteen million British citizens arrived in Spain in 2014 to spend your vacation. In addition, 10.6 million French citizens and 10.4 million German citizens also chose Spain to rest. However, the highest percentage increases corresponded to Belgium -16.4%-, Italy -14.6%- and Portugal -11.7%-, according to Frontur-Border Movements Turistics Survey compiled by the Government of Spain.

The foreign tourists prefer for their holidays the Canary Islands -8%-, Andalusia -7.8%-, Catalonia -7.6%- and Madrid -7.5%-. They also recorded increases in tourist numbers Valencia -4.4% more- and the Balearic Islands -2.8% more-. Almost 80% of foreign tourists visiting Spain makes plane, namely 51,822,859 tourists. Road reached 11,953,093 people. In both cases increases of 6.3% recorded in the case of aircraft and 18.4% for road transport. 63.2% of tourists stayed in hotels, 41,074,433 people. A majority also -the 70.2%- of the total chose to travel without a package tour.