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The number of passengers flying to or from Barcelona's airport – also known as El Prat – jumped to approximately ** million in 2024, increasing by more than ** percent. Moreover, the passenger traffic at Spain's second-largest airport that year was higher than in the years before the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Barcelona is not only visited by tourists

Most of the people that traveled to Barcelona were there on vacation or similar leisure purposes according to the latest surveys. An important share of the visitors went to the Spanish city for other reasons: Just under ** percent of the tourists in the Catalan city arrived for business reasons. 

Barcelona and Spain are popular destinations

It is no secret that millions of tourists travel to the popular and vibrant Barcelona every year. Spain is also one of Europe’s favorite holiday destinations – France, the United Kingdom, and Germany appeared in the leading positions in terms of the largest number of international visitors to Spain by country of residence, as confirms the most recent data. Spain ranked second on the World Tourism Organization’s list of most visited countries in the world, with its number of international visitors amounting to ** million in 2023.