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Spain expects more summer tourists than before pandemic

A woman and a kid sit under an umbrella at a beach in Barcelona, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, Spain July 14, 2021. REUTERS/Nacho Doce/File Photo

Spain expects to receive more tourists in the summer of 2023 than before the COVID-19 pandemic, after international tourist arrivals for April were 1.2% higher than in the same month in 2019, the tourism minister said on Thursday.

"The data reflects an extraordinary recovery in tourism... Everything seems to indicate that we are going to break records compared to 2019," Hector Gomez told reporters at a five-star hotel in Madrid.

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