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B2 – Upper Intermediate<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Spain, tourists have been spending billions of Euros from January to July alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is said to be helping the country recover from the economic crisis. However, some top Spanish vacation destinations have experienced drawbacks from the heavy influx of tourists in the recent years, forcing authorities to impose stern measures to control the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tourist spending in Spain sets new record, boosting economic recovery<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Foreign tourists spent \u20ac37.129 billion between January and July alone \u2013 the highest in recorded history, according to a report released by the federal Tourist Expenditure Survey released on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was an increase of 7.7 percent over the same time period from last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spain has received a record number of tourists<\/a> so far this year at 37.9 million, who have in turn been spending record amounts of cash each day \u2013 dropping on average \u20ac113 per person daily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And each tourist spent nearly a grand \u2013 \u20ac978 \u2013 over the course of their vacation under the Spanish sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tourists from the UK lined the coffers of Spain\u2019s tourism industry the most, spending a total of \u20ac7.58 billion. But although one in four tourists you may see poking around gift shops hail from the British Isles, the British only contributed a fifth of the total tourist spend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It was the American tourists, though, who seemed to have the deepest pockets with each US native spending on average \u20ac161 per day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Catalonia, the coastal region in northeastern Spain, earned the most from tourism racking up \u20ac8.588 billion a figure that represents amost a quarter (23.1 percent) of all of the money spent by tourists across Spain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But despite the fact that tourists have been bringing in evermore money to the cash-strapped country, Spain has seen backlash against mass tourism in recent years at some of the top vacation spots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barcelona\u2019s new mayor has vowed to introduce measures to limit the number of tourists to the Catalan capital.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Authorities have already announced a clampdown on the rental of private homes<\/a> to tourists including through such popular sites as Airbnb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Magaluf is among those resorts attempting to crack down on tourists behaving badly through a raft of new bylaws<\/a> prohibiting exhibitionism and binge drinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And Benidorm on the Costa Blanca will now be employing the help of British bobbies<\/a> to patrol the shores where more than one million Brits holiday each year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Money may not grow on trees, but in Spain it sure seems to grow on tourists as holidaymakers bring in more cash than they ever have before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discussion Questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. What do you think leads to more tourists coming to your country?
\n2. Do you think tourism helped a lot in improving Spain’s economic condition?
\n3. What are the benefits and drawbacks of tourism?
\n4. What other places in Spain should be developed for tourism?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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