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EU tourism hits record in 2014

29 January 2015, 14:22 CET
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EU tourism hits record in 2014

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(BRUSSELS) - The European Union attracted a record number of tourists in 2014, with visits to France leading the bloc, official data showed on Thursday.

Last year tourists spent 2.7 billion nights in tourist accommodations across the EU's 28 countries, the Eurostat data agency said, up 1.7 percent from 2013.

France still came top of the heap, with 403 million visitor nights, but that was down 1.7 percent from last year.

Sun-soaked Spain moved ever closer to dethroning France, up 3.1 percent to 401 million nights. The figures include both domestic and international visitors.

Baltic nation Latvia saw the biggest increase in tourism, up by 11 percent, while Greece and Portugal enjoyed solid recoveries after years of weakness due to the eurozone debt crisis.

Spain and Italy attracted the most number of foreign tourists, the data showed.

New record level of 2.7bn tourism nights in the EU28 in 2014 [Eurostat]


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