Persons participating in tourism for personal purposes - number of tourists

In 2022, Spain's persons participating in tourism for personal purposes increased by 35.9% compared to 2021, reaching 21,062,804.

Spain accounts for 12.2% of the EU-27 total of 173,314,724.

Spain ranks 3rd out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 4.5% (from 20,150,650 in 2017).

Source: Eurostat dataset tin00185, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.