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Spain's tourist arrivals jump 8-fold in March, edge toward pre-COVID levels

FILE PHOTO: Tourists browse souvenir postcards in a shop in Ronda, southern Spain, April 27, 2022. REUTERS/Jon Nazca/File Photo

Spain received 4 million tourists in March, more than eight times as many as in the same month last year, after most pandemic-related restrictions were lifted, data from the National Institute of Statistics (INE) showed on Thursday.

Foreign tourists spent 5.07 billion euros ($5.37 billion) while on holiday in the country in March, up from a mere 544 million euros a year earlier, the data showed.

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