Britons still rule Spain's holiday market

25/09/2013 00:00

STAFF REPORTER A REPORT released yesterday by a central government Tourism ministry department, Frontur, claimed that whilst visitors from Great Britain still dominated Spain's tourist industry, the number of British visitors to the Balearics fell slightly last month.

The Islands have proved to be Spain's second most popular holiday destination for foreign visitors, with some 7.6 million people coming to the Balearics so far this year - an increase of 2.1 percent with respect to the first eight months of 2007. Frontur said that the region has confronted the global credit crunch very well by being able to capture 18.5 percent of the total number of tourist visits to Spain. The Islands are only beaten in tourist success by Catalonia, a region which so far this year has had more than 10 million foreign visitors, although data shows that this volume is down 5.3 percent on last year.