Barcelona's most visited tourist attractions 2019
Barcelona’s most popular tourist attraction is the Sagrada Familia, with over 4.7 million visits in 2019. This was followed by Park Güell and the FC Barcelona Museum. It is no secret that millions of tourists travel to the popular and vibrant Barcelona every year, ranking among the top ten of leading European city destinations.
Tourism constitutes an essential industry for the Spanish economic system
Spain ranked second on the World Tourism Organization’s list of most visited countries in the world, with its number of international visitors amounting to nearly 83 million in 2018. The Mediterranean country is also one of Europe’s favorite holiday destinations – the United Kingdom, Germany and France appear in the leading positions of the largest number of international visitors to Spain by country of residence, as confirms the data collected from the Spanish Statistics Institute (INE).
Barcelona: a hotspot for Spanish tourism
Barcelona has seen a considerable growth in the number of visitors that stay in hotels over the past 30 years, with its bed occupancy rate reaching over 72 percent. According to the Barcelona City Council, most of the people that traveled to Barcelona that year were tourists, although an important share of the visitors went to the Spanish city for business purposes too.
Tourism constitutes an essential industry for the Spanish economic system
Spain ranked second on the World Tourism Organization’s list of most visited countries in the world, with its number of international visitors amounting to nearly 83 million in 2018. The Mediterranean country is also one of Europe’s favorite holiday destinations – the United Kingdom, Germany and France appear in the leading positions of the largest number of international visitors to Spain by country of residence, as confirms the data collected from the Spanish Statistics Institute (INE).
Barcelona: a hotspot for Spanish tourism
Barcelona has seen a considerable growth in the number of visitors that stay in hotels over the past 30 years, with its bed occupancy rate reaching over 72 percent. According to the Barcelona City Council, most of the people that traveled to Barcelona that year were tourists, although an important share of the visitors went to the Spanish city for business purposes too.
