International tourism volume in Catalonia 2000-2022
second most populated autonomous community in Spain.
Catalonia welcomed almost 15 million international tourists in 2022. Though this figure was still around 23 percent below the pre-pandemic levels, it represented a sharp recovery compared to the previous two years. In the last three years of the 2010s, over 19 million foreign travelers visited the Spanish autonomous community annually, which more than doubled its total number of inhabitants. Catalonia is the