Infographic: Spain's Travel Destinations, Tourism Statistics & Issues

This project presents an infographic analysis of Spain's travel and tourism sector, highlighting key statistics such as the significant contribution of tourism to Spain's GDP and employment rates. It identifies primary attractions including the friendliness of Spaniards, beautiful villages, and vibrant cities like Madrid and Barcelona known for their arts, culture, and shopping. The project also addresses critical challenges affecting Spain's tourism industry, including COVID-19 restrictions, cross-border regulations, security concerns, cultural clashes, seasonal fluctuations, and funding imbalances. The infographic concludes with a reference list of academic sources used, providing a comprehensive overview of the factors shaping Spain's competitive position in the international tourism market. Desklib offers a platform to explore similar projects and solved assignments for students.

SPAIN Travel infographic
Key travel and tourism statistics of Spain
Because of having many attractions more than 75 million
international tourists tend to select Spain as their destination
every year. Further, it has been seen and analsysed that in Spain,
tourism tend to have accounted for 11.8% of GDP during the
year 2017 and in 2018 sustained 13.5% of employment (or 2.6
million direct jobs). Along with this, in 2018, Spain tend to have
recorded a total of 425.4 million domestic trips, out of which
139.9 million were overnight while the other 285.5 million were
day visitors.
Key challenges affecting
the destination
The main challenges which are
affecting the destination of
Spain comprises of:
1. Culture clashes
2. Seasonal fluctuation
3. Imbalanced funding
Key attributes/attractions of the destination
The wide range of tourist resources are available
within Spain comprising of many attractions in form of its hotels,
Spaniards' friendliness, and a highly professional tourist industry. The
Beautiful villages of Spain along with the fact that it’s the only country
of Europe that boats along with cares for the one of the most attractive
and beautiful architectural that tend to relics its heritage. Thus, the towns
of Spain are very well known for being ideal for romantic tourism and
because of this it is visited all year round by tourists from all over.
Further, the other attractions of Spain comprise of the vibrant cities of
Madrid and Barcelona which tend to be world-renowned because of its
arts and culture scene, fantastic food, incredible museums and
impressive shopping options.
4. Restrictions imposed due to
convid-19.
5. Cross border regulations and
security
6. Taxation and infrastructure
issues
Online:
Spain: Tourism in the economy. 2021. [Online]
Available Through:< https://www.oecd-
ilibrary.org/sites/8ed5145b-en/index.html?
itemId=/content/component/8ed5145b-en >.
REFERENCES
Castillo-Manzano, J.I. and et. al., 2020. Quality versus
quantity: An assessment of the impact of Michelin-
starred restaurants on tourism in Spain. Tourism
Economics, p.1354816620917482.
Dancausa, G., Hernández, R.D. and Pérez, L.M., 2020.
Motivations and constraints for the ghost tourism: A
case study in Spain. Leisure Sciences, pp.1-22.