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In the first three months of the year, tourist travel by residents increased by 12.1% to reach 4.5 million trips, according to the National Institute of Statistics (INE) , reflecting "the late effect on the calendar". "In the first quarter of the year 2018, 18.6% of the resident population made at least one tourist trip, representing an increase of 3.2 percentage point increase over the same period of 2017. This increase is mainly due to the effect of March (+3.0 percentage points, 11.5% of tourists) influenced by the Easter effect, "says the text of the INE which accompanies the data
According to the data obtained, during the first three months of 2018, foreign trips were the largest and most important, corresponding to 10.5% of the total. total and an increase of 14.9% over
With regard to the motivation of the trip, the "visit to family or friends" was the most represented reason, with 2.2 million trips and representing 49.7% of the total, with a 0.2 percentage point decrease compared to the same quarter of the year last, while "recreation, leisure or holidays" accounted for 1.54 million trips, or 34.3% of the total, up 0.5 percentage points. On the other hand, "business or professional" trips accounted for 494.1 thousand trips, or 11.0% of the total, an increase of 1.1 percentage points
. "Free private accommodation", which accounted for 70.4% of total overnight stays, with a decrease of 4.1 percentage points, while overnight stays in hotels and the like accounted for 21.1% of overnight stays during the quarter , an increase of 2%.
In terms of number of overnight stays, INE reported an average of 4.01 overnight stays per resident tourist, which represents an increase of 0.1% over the same period of 2017, with the number of
The proportion of trips with pre-reservation services reached 27, while the average number of overnight stays per tourist was higher in March, while the average remained at 4.31 nights, or 13.6% more only during the first three months of last year. 5% in the first quarter of 2018, which translates into an increase of 1.8 percentage point percentage points to 91.0% or over 0.4 percentage point for overseas travel.
The use of the Internet was an option in the organization of 16.2% of tourist trips, a decrease of 0.3 percentage points, and this possibility was used in 61, 8% of trips abroad
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