More tourists for Spain in 2011
Spain has received over 5 million foreign tourists in the first two months of the year. This represents a 4.5% increase from last year’s numbers.
United Kingdom was the market that delivered more tourists to Spain in the first two months of the year, despite suffering a decline of 5.6%, followed by Germany and France.
In the first two months, 878,257 German tourists travelled to Spain, a number virtually unchanged over the same period last year. As for the French market, third in number of arrivals, an increase of 4.9% was registered.
Interesting is the behaviour of Nordic tourists, which accounted for 10.9% of the foreign tourists in January and February. This is an increase of 14.6% over the same period last year. For its part, the Italian tourism increased by 18.3% over January and February last year. The same growth rate recorded the arrival of tourists from Belgium. Other significant growth markets are the Netherlands (23%), Switzerland (20%) and the U.S. (10.1%).
source: eleconomista.es
Home sales on the rebound
The sale of homes increased by 19.6 percent in January over the same month last year to a total of 45,013 transactions. 51.5 percent of the transactions were performed on pre-owned homes and 48.5 per cent on new properties, according to the National Statistics Institute (INE).
The sale of previously owned homes rose last January by 24.3 percent to 23,168 transactions, while new homes rose by 14.9 percent, with 21,845 operations in the first month of the year 2011.
In January, 58.8 percent of house sales were recorded in Andalusia, Madrid, Catalonia and Valencia. The communities with the highest number of housing sales transactions per 100,000 inhabitants were La Rioja (166) and Cantabria (161).
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