It seems that the tourist boom was the only "ray of hope" for the Spanish economy: following the results of 2013, the corresponding sector increased the overall GDP of the country by 0, 6%.

News about the popularization of the Spanish direction has repeatedly appeared in foreign and Russian media . The main result of it was a record increase in the tourist flow of 5%, in which our co with a phenomenal index of 31, 3% . According to the portal espanarusa . com with reference to the Tourism Excellence Exceltur Association, over the past year the number of employees of the tourism industry in Spain grew by 2% and amounted to almost 22,400 people . At the backdrop of the protracted crisis and deplorable state of affairs in other sectors, the demonstrated result was perceived as a symbol of the beginning of the recovery of the local economy .

In parallel, the Tourism Excellence Exceltur published the final annual figures: in 2013, Spain was visited by 60.3 million foreign trips who left about 45 billion EUR in the country.

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