You are not the only one visiting Catalonia


If you are renting an apartment in Barcelona and you think you are rather original, you should know you are not the only one visiting the city. Catalonia is the region that has received the largest amount of tourists this year, accounting for 25.7% of the tourists visiting Spain.

47.2 million foreign tourists visited Spain in the first eight months of 2015, a 4.1% more than the tourists coming to the country in the same period in 2014 breaking an all-time-record, according to the latest data made available by the survey Frontur, endorsed by the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism. Considering these numbers, 5.5 million tourists stay in rental apartments. Visitors from Britain, France and Germany made up more than half of the foreign entries into Spain.
If we take a deeper look at this data, Catalonia was the region that accounted for the highest percentage of international tourists receiving 25.7% of the total of visitors, followed by the Balearic Islands (18.5%), the Canary Islands (16.1%) and Andalucía (13.5%). In total, more than 12.11 million of foreigners visited Catalonia from January to August.