TheJakartaPost
Please Update your browser
Your browser is out of date, and may not be compatible with our website. A list of the most popular web browsers can be found below.
Just click on the icons to get to the download page.
Spain claims world no. 3 spot for tourists
Spain announced Tuesday it has retaken the number three spot in world tourism in 2013, overtaking China by luring a record 60
Change Size
S
pain announced Tuesday it has retaken the number threespot in world tourism in 2013, overtaking China by luring a record 60.6 millioninternational visitors.
Foreign tourist arrivals surged by 5.6 percent in the year, the government said, boosting the eurozone's fourth largest economy after a long, job-wrecking recession.
'The new figures for 2013
allow our country to retake the number three position in this indicator after having overtaken China,'
Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy boasted. Spain now stood behind only France with 83
million international tourist arrivals and the United States with 67 million,
Rajoy said.
