ES · 2021 · tin00185
Persons participating in tourism for personal purposes - number of tourists
Spain, 2021
In 2021, Spain's persons participating in tourism for personal purposes decreased by 20.4% compared to 2020, reaching 15,499,497.
Spain accounts for 10.1% of the EU-27 total of 152,946,667.
Spain ranks 3rd out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 15.8% (from 18,417,748 in 2016).
Source: Eurostat dataset tin00185, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.