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Spain looks to reduce destination overload by highlighting other regions

Destinations
James Chapple
7 November 2023

Spain’s focus on growing tourism expenditure over visitor numbers will continue, although the country’s tourism secretary believes there will be opportunities over the next two to three years to introduce new tourists to lesser-visited parts of the country.

Spain looks to reduce destination overload by highlighting other regions

Rosana Morillo, Spain’s secretary of state for tourism, told TTG@WTM Spain’s "extraordinary" season would continue into autumn and winter. "We might not recover the same number of tourists in all regions compared with 2019, but expenditure will for sure be bigger than 2019," she said. "From our minimum to maximum scenarios, even at the midpoint, it will be higher than in 2019."