BRIT VISITORS TIGHTEN THEIR POCKETS
Last week the Leader happily reported that tourism in the country and locally, had received a boost with an increase in tourists during the first half of the year and with hotels in Guardamar reaching 100% occupancy during the first few weeks in August, and news this week is that there have been record spends by some of those visitors.
There was record spend of more than 29 billion euros by tourists who visited Spain over the first seven months of this year, an increase of 8.8% on the same period of 2010. But, while the British were still the main market, spending 5.76 billion between January and July, figures show that each visitor from the UK is actually spending less.
The average spend per Brit was 6.3% down on 2010, and 7.6% down for the month of July. The average daily outlay by each visitor to Spain from the UK was down 4.5% to an average of 89€ in July, while the average for their holiday stay was 801€. The recession does not seem to be hitting the Scandinavians, Germans and the French as much as they are all spending more than they were in 2010.
There was a marked increase in the numbers of visitors to Spain from Holland in July. The 25.8% increase in tourist numbers was reflected by their total spend of 403 million euros, an increase of 27.2%.
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