Barcelona, Dec 15 || Spain is set to register a record number of visitors this year, with some 95 million foreign visitors coming to the country and a turnover of over 2 billion euros ($2.10 billion), according to the Spanish tourist industry organisation Mesa de Turismo.
With foreign visitor numbers returning to pre-pandemic levels, Spain's tourist industry appears to have fully recovered from the health crisis and is now looking ahead with optimism, news agency reported.
In Barcelona, a major holiday destination in Spain and Europe, the Barcelona Tourism Consortium is aiming to use tourism to transform the city.
"The COVID experience was traumatic and taught us that we have an opportunity to use tourism to continue transforming our cities, to attract investment, to reach out to the world, to give recognition to new projects from abroad while making our identity and our culture known to the world," Mateu Hernandez, managing director of the Barcelona Tourism Consortium, told.