According to the provisional data provided by the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Spanish Commerce, the arrival of British tourists and German during the past year 2010 underwent a reduction of the 6 and 2%, respectively, although, in spite of it and against all prognosis, the national tourism resisted to the crisis, increasing the number of visitors in 800.000 new tourists who arrived at Spain, which supposed a growth of 1.4 points. The United Kingdom has stopped being therefore the first emitting country from tourists to Spain, that, nevertheless, has resisted the economic conjuncture thanks to the arrival of tourists coming from other countries like Russia, Italy, the Netherlands, France or the Nordic nations. Perhaps in it the numerous local routes between the different independent communities acquire relevance, that they allow the tourists to reserve his cheap flights to Valencia or to cross the region Andalusian and her different provinces through the routes that connect the main capitals of the community with the great cities Spaniards like the cheap flights to Granada or the cheap flights to Malaga. Of the data offered by the ministry, she is extracted that if in year 2009 1.12 million British traveled to Spain, during the 2010 stopped arriving at nation 60,000 English. Thus, during the past year a total of 53 million tourists traveled to Spain, which supposes an increase of the tourism after two years followed of falls (in the 2008 a 2.3% and in the 2009 decreased a 8.7%). This increase of the tourism during the 2010 has been translated in numbers of business near the 49,140 million Euros, with an average cost by person of 930 Euros, about 98 Euros to the day. Facing the exercise of the 2011, it is anticipated that the strongpoint is the promotion of the Spanish tourism in China, since the forecasts for year 2012 locate the arrival of Chinese visitors to Spain in 300,000 people. The Spanish regions that lead the increase of the tourism are, by order, the Basque Country, Asturias, the Canary Islands, Andalusia, Catalonia and the Balearics. It decreases, on the other hand, the number of visitors in the communities of Madrid (4.5%) and Valencia (1.1%).
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