Turespana, the Spanish Tourism Office, has provided the latest data on the travel and tourism sector with respect to the number of planned seats on airplanes in the current year.

As per the office, in January 2024 alone, the total number of seats planned for several international flights to Spain stood at 7.4 million.

This figure indicated a 13% increase in the number of planned seats as compared to the corresponding period of 2023.

Back then, Turespana had revealed that the overall number of planned seats for international passengers was at 6.6 million.

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The tourism office has further made several comparisons between the forecasted data for January 2024 and the available information from January 2023.

Consequently, Turespana highlighted that the primary issuing markets of these planned seats are Italy, Germany, and the United Kingdom.

These three countries were also prevalent in their number of planned seats in the previous year and have been performing well in the current year as well.

As of now, the UK has reported a total increase of 5.9% in seats planned for travelers, and Germany has revealed a hike of 12.2%.

The most significant surge has been noted in Italy, which revealed that there has been a growth of 20.7% in the seats designated for visitors to Spain.

On this note, Jordi Hereu, the Minister of Industry, Commerce, and Tourism, stated that the forecasted planned seats confirm the strength of the travel and tourism sector in Spain.

He added that the current data predictions have paved the way for a fruitful year similar to 2023. In addition, the country has already surpassed the figures it was recording back in 2019, before the pandemic.

Other countries

Various other countries were on the list of those locations that showed a rise in planned seats to Spain for 2024.

These included Czechia and Poland, which surpassed 50% in accelerated growth and managed to be one of the fastest growing countries.

Significant rises in growth rates were also recorded in Ireland, Colombia, Turkiye, Austria, and the United States.

Previous data from the tourism office also indicated a significant rise in the overall number of seats scheduled for international flights to Spain in the month of December of 2023.

Consequently, the figure reached a total of 8.1 million and represented a growth of 14.2% in comparison to the corresponding period in 2022. Back then, 7.1 million seats had been offered.

Poland

In December 2022, Poland performed exceptionally well and indicated that 90.7% more places had been planned as compared to the year before.

Poland’s figures were followed closely by Czechia, with a significant rise of 46.2%. Meanwhile, the US demonstrated a year-on-year surge of 27.2% in planned seats.

On the same note, Austria experienced a year-on-year increase of 26.4% on flights scheduled for December for Spain.

Through this distribution of seats on different scheduled flights by country, Turespana indicated that the UK takes the lead with no less than 19.3% of the overall reserved seats for the month.