{"id":915,"date":"2011-01-25T14:02:56","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T13:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/?p=915"},"modified":"2012-06-12T09:20:57","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T09:20:57","slug":"we-need-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taylorwimpeyspain.com\/blog\/we-need-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"We need Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spain’s tourist industry rebounded last year from the economic crisis that has battered the key sector, with the number of foreign visitors edging up by one per cent, the government has said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Although down by 6.5 per cent to 12.5 million, Britons represented the largest tourist group making up 23.6 per cent of the total, followed by Germany and France.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Spain recorded 52.6 million international arrivals in 2010, up from 52.5 million in 2009, the tourism ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It was the first increase since 2007 and follows a decline of 8.7 per cent in 2009 and of 2.3 per cent in 2008, when the country plunged into recession amid the collapse of its once-booming property market and the global financial meltdown.<\/p>\n