Almost a million tourists visited Catalonia from abroad in November, below 2019 figures

Just under a million international tourists - 962,715 - visited Catalonia in November, an 8.1% drop on the same month in 2019 according to provisional figures from Spain's Statistics Institute (INE) published on Wednesday morning.

There were, however, 56.3% more foreign visitors than in November 2021, when only 616,059 came. 

€1,020 per person

While Catalonia welcomed fewer travelers than before the pandemic, those who did come spent on average €1,020 per person, 10.15% more than in 2019, an amount that has likely increased in part due to inflation. 

All in all, international tourists spent €982 million in Catalonia last November and stayed for an average of 5.4 days.  

14 million tourists January to November

Catalonia attracted almost 14 million tourists from January to November, becoming the most visited part of Spain, but falling short of the 18 million visitors it saw over the same period in 2019. 

Around 20% of tourists that visited Catalonia were from France. 

Over 4 million tourists in Spain

Spain, meanwhile, welcomed 4.3 million tourists from abroad in November, almost a third more than in 2021, but below the 4.6 million that came over the same month in 2019.  They spent an average of €1,241 per person and stayed for 7.5 days. 

From January to November, 67.4 million people visited the country, more than twice as many as in 2021.