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1959
The beginnings of the modern tourism place in the decade of the fifties, concretely in 1959, coinciding with a significant moment with the economic planning of Spain. -
In 1960 the number of visitors overcame six millions
In 1960 the number of visitors overcame six millions, and from this year there was opened a stage that would last until 1973, there were constructed complexes of apartments and hotels and it gave place to the precipitated urbanization of the littorals, often governed by the speculation and the lacking elementary planning -
The expansive pace remained interrupted in 1973
The expansive pace remained interrupted in 1973, due to the recession motivated by the increase of the oil prices, the west of the Franco's regime and the stutters of the democratic transition. -
Eighties
From 1976 there began a new phase of supported growth, which lasted until 1989, and whose principal characteristic was the incorporation of the Spanish to the beach tourism -
Nineties
After a recession at the beginning of the nineties, coincidental with the increase of the Spanish offer and the new alternative destinations in Europe and in the Mediterranean area (Arabic countries, Yugoslavia, etc.) it began the last phase, which reaches up to the present. -
In 2017
In 2017 Spain reached the level of 100 million visitors, though tourists in strict sense were only 59 millions. These numbers place Spain as the second tourist world destination in number of visitors, behind France and ahead of The United States.
