Passenger traffic at El Prat Airport 2000-2023
The number of passengers flying to or from Barcelona's airport – known as El Prat – jumped to approximately 50 million in 2023, increasing by almost 20 percent. However, the passenger traffic at Spain's second largest airport remained still around 21 percent behind the 2019 figure.
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 12 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 83.5 million in 2019.
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 12 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 83.5 million in 2019.
