In June there was a total of 5.3 million tourists in Spain.This number of Spanish tourists was up by 1.7% on the same month of last year.

These statistics were produced by the Frontier Tourist Movement Survey ( FRONTUR) and drafted by the Tourism Studies Institute of the Ministry of Industry,Tourism and Trade.

This is the second consecutive increase in the number of tourists arriving in Spain.There was an increase of 1.1% in May.

In the first 6 months of 2010 approximately 23 million tourists visited the country and this was 1.8% fewer than in 2009.It is thought that this figure reflects the effects of the volcanic ash cloud.

In June there were more positive trends from countries such as Germany,France ,Italy and Holland.People coming from even further afield also increased.

All of the major tourist destinations registered an increase in June and those that didn´t only saw a slight decline.

Tourists staying in hotels in June accounted for 68% of the total with an increase of almost 10% at the same time last year.