According to Pedro Medina, deputy director of the Spanish Tourist Office, early tourism indicators for 2022 show summer air capacity is 3.47% below 2019 levels, but there is a growing average length of stay from UK visitors – 11.4 nights in January 2022 compared 8.73 at the same time in 2021.
However, Medina emphasised how the country’s tourism strategy for 2022 was not based around arrival statistics.
"Yes in 2019, Spain registered over 83.5 million international arrivals, which is huge, however our focus is not to recover these numbers," he said.
